The Vilna Gaon (Rabbi Elijah ben Solomon Zalman, 1720–1797), widely regarded as one of the greatest Torah scholars in Jewish ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jewish mystical texts say studying the Torah is a way of studying God’s mind. Some say a "renaissance" for a broadened Jewish interest in study is underway.

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.

ROME An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts said Wednesday he had discovered the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. It was right under his nose, in ...

Instead, Professor Meyer told Express.co.uk the story was wrongly translated into English from the earliest known Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible.

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.