A rabbinic tradition preserved in b. Yoma 52a–b suggests that five biblical verses are "undecidable"—that is, it is not clear how they ought to be punctuated. This makes evident a fact that is not ...

Sokolow, a professor at the Azrieli Graduate School of Jewish Education and Administration, has crafted a masterful and thorough volume of Torah scholarship that raises multiple questions inherent in ...

Does the Orthodox Church teach that the Septuagint is more reliable than the Hebrew text of the Old Testament? If so, why? Fr. John Whiteford talks about the "Bible according to the Seventy". ...the ...

In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

The phonetic realization of shewa has been a perennial issue. The present article attempts to propose shewa rules in the various Tiberian accentual contexts on the basis of the arguments of Aron Dotan ...

WASHINGTON — A museum in the US capital unveiled a thousand-year old Hebrew Bible Thursday — one of the oldest intact Torah manuscripts in the world. The book is currently on display at the Museum of ...