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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.
Despina Liozidou Shermister is my hero. 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 ...
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.
A replica of the Ark of the Covenant, painstakingly constructed, its creators say, to the Torah specifications of the sacred vessel that was the First Temple’s central fixture, was displayed in ...
Visiting the city of Ioannina, King George attended services in the local synagogue today and received a golden Hebrew Scroll of the Covenant. Afterward, he visited the Jewish quarter of the city ...
Mark Vientos' Hebrew tattoo raised eyebrows for more than one reason after the Mets third baseman's walkoff home run.
The images are interestingly labeled in both Greek and Hebrew. Here the mosaic illustrates the binding of Isaac at Mount Moriah, showing two servants waiting for Abraham's arrival.
The Harry Potter series will be read in Hebrew and Arabic, Greek and Latin in a new book club series at Polis, a Jerusalem institute dedicated to using language as a method to understand other ...
I'm sure you can think of words that come from Hebrew or Yiddish — religious words like rabbi and torah, food words like bagel and latke, cultural words like chutzpah and verklempt. But there's ...
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.