Part of this month’s Important Judaica sale, the medieval work is expected to fetch between $1.5 and $2.5 million. A rare, 14th-century handwritten Hebrew Bible from Spain will hit the auction block ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

The Bay Area scholar concludes decades of work on what a colleague calls the "best translation of the Bible into English ever made." So begins a monumental new literary translation of the Hebrew Bible ...

The earliest, most complete Hebrew bible ever discovered is being sold at auction Wednesday at Sotheby's in New York City. It's estimated to go for between $30 and $50 million. MARISA MAZRIA KATZ: In ...

There are many contradictions within the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses), the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic literature. In the continuation, I will give only one example of contradiction – of what in my ...

A Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old and described as “one of the most important and singular texts in human history” has become the most valuable manuscript ever sold at auction. The Codex ...

A near-complete copy of the Hebrew Bible from around 1,000 years ago — missing only a few pages — will go up for auction in New York in May. The price tag? An estimated $30 to $50 million, said ...

As a historian of religions I have taught Christian Origins for the past 43 years at three major universities. Looking back here are some thoughts on what I see as the essential differences between ...