One, the Hebrew University Bible Project, was established in 1956 to assemble every known textual variant of the Hebrew Bible. Unlike HBCE, the project is designed to assemble variations, not to ...

On January 21, 2018, Bible Scholar Nehemia Gordon and his team of researchers discovered the 1,000th Hebrew Bible manuscript containing the original name of God in Hebrew with vowels.

Torah 88 248 (photo credit: Courtesy) According to the post-Talmudic tractate Sofrim , there were three Torah scrolls in the Temple court, each slightly different than the others.

Many of today’s printings of the Hebrew Bible come from the Second Rabbinic Bible, a text assembled in 16th-century Venice. The Jewish Publication Society uses the Leningrad Codex, which at ...

SCRANTON -- The ink is faded, the parchment not glazed, but the words are as meaningful as ever. This Torah from Germany dates back more than 150 years, a hidden treasure, containing the first ...

Our hopes extend to the minds – and the hearts, really – of rabbinic scholars who interpret Torah for daily application to be open to not newer but deeper interpretations of a living Torah.

‘The renowned Torah commentator Rashi (1040-1105) wrote, “For the wife serves her husband like a maid-servant, like a slave his master.”’ First of all, Rashi is not a ‘renowned Torah ...

REGIONAL BRIEFS Historic Torah used at city temple SCRANTON – A Torah scroll more than a century old will be used at Temple Hesed during Yom Kippur later this month. The Torah, found in a clo… ...

The idea that 3300 years ago, at Sinai, God gave Moses a Torah identical to the Torah we have today is a powerful concept, one that still resonates. But. Skip to content. ADVERTISE.

The Torah is the foundational text of the Jewish People. Initially, it asserts a pre-history and a purpose of the ancient Judahite kingdom to which ...