Join the Program in Judaic Studies for this year's Kwartler Family Lecture with Julia Rhyder on Tuesday, October 21. Abstract Commemorating war is such an integral part of the modern nation-state, and ...

In a prodigious, once-in-a-century feat of scholarship and literary artistry, Robert Alter last year published the first new translation of the entire Hebrew Bible (Tanakh) in more than 50 years. It ...

Sponsored by the School of Theology and Ministry with the generous support of the Kitz Family, in honor of Richard J. Clifford, S.J. The word “myth” has been used in many different ways, sometimes ...

Welcome back to our weekly introduction to the Hebrew Bible with Professor Christine Hayes of Yale University. This week, Professor Hayes continues her review of scholarly views, begun last week, on ...

According to some traditions, the Torah was written by Moses --- even though Moses dies in the story and the text continues. We'll look at how scholars approach the question of Biblical authorship ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

For a while now I’ve been hearing about a new translation of the Hebrew Bible, called Tanach Ram. (Tanakh, of course, is Hebrew for “Bible,” an acronym composed of Torah, the Five Books of Moses; Nevi ...