Eunice emailed word of what sounds like a very interesting talk: The Joys of Jewish Folklore with Dr Eleanor Wachs Folklore is the ethnogra...

As we noted when reading Genesis and Exodus, elaborate descriptions of landscape and topography are conspicuously absent from much Old Testa...

A podcast about Herodotus and a new translation of it. Two and a half thousand years ago, a man named Herodotus wandered the ancient world,...

This 1631 "Wicked Bible"- known as such for the famous error displayed below is o ne of several historic editions of the Good Book...

Latin is back, according to the NYT : The resurgence of a language once rejected as outdated and irrelevant is reflected across the country ...

Lola has kindly lent me her copy of Who Wrote the Bible? by Richard E. Friedman. It's a well-told tale of the puzzle of how the early pa...

Here's the article on Machiavelli noted by Mussy: The Florentine ...

Robert Alter ( The David Story ) offers an interesting gloss on the contradictory narratives of chapters 16 and 17 of 1 Samuel. In 16, he sa...

David Hebrew : דָּוִד , Standard Dawid Tiberian Dāwîḏ , Arabic : داوود or داود, Dāwūd , "beloved"), was the second king of th...

Just a reminder that the texts for our reading this fall will include Samuel I and II and the beginning of Kings from the Old Testament. An ...

JERUSALEM — A three-foot-tall tablet with 87 lines of Hebrew that scholars believe dates from the decades just before the birth of Jesus is ...