If you spend enough time on social media, you’re likely going to come across claims about Hebrew that will make your head spin: Hebrew is a European language. Hebrew is actually stolen Arabic. There ...

Jews brought many wonderful things to modernity, but one of the greatest Jewish breakthroughs arose due to Renaissance Christian efforts. This innovation was “republican exclusivism,” and the absolute ...

It’s a very common motif in anti-theist atheist polemics, to say that the Bible appears to be very complicated and inscrutable (and, they wrongly think, ubiquitously contradictory). This shouldn’t be ...

In the modern linguistic market and intellectual sphere, a situation has become established where "Latin," "Modern Greek," ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...