My Greek Israeli heroine, who at the age of fifty six gave birth to the first modern Greek-Hebrew, Hebrew-Greek dictionary; Despina went through 10 years of extended labor, working 5 hours daily ...

Third of the late Chief Rabbi Avraham Shapira's essays on Hanukkah: "It was inevitable that the translation of the Torah into Greek diminished the uniqueness of the Jewish people.

The two different Greek renderings of an apparently otherwise identical Hebrew ‘ayin can sometimes be seen in close proximity to each other, even in the same verse.

Hebrew-Greek Cairo Genizah Palimpsests from the Taylor-Schechter collection, including a Fragment of the Twenty-second Psalm according to Origen's Hexapla. Cambridge, 1900. 16 ...

The extended rays of Helius, the Greek Sun God, are rising from the sea, pulled by a team of horses. Versions of this image are found at the center of many ancient Hebrew Zodiacs.

Earlier in the day, it was fitted with the Greek Torah at Jerusalem’s City of David. It was later displayed—with some difficulty and via a Schweppes pallet jack—on a rooftop overlooking the ...

Torah portion: The meaning of life Great thinkers have important things to say about the meaning of life. For the Greek philosopher Aristotle, it was that “man is a political animal.” ...

Greek King Gets “sefer Torah” in Visit to Synagogue. February 26, 1936. ... King George attended services in the local synagogue today and received a golden Hebrew Scroll of the Covenant.

Megillat Taanit, however, writes that, “On the 8th of Tevet, the Torah was translated into Greek, in the days of King Talmai, and a darkness covered the world for three days.” ...