construct or transform Jewish peoplehood consumed Jewish intellectuals in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Despite a rich array of writing from Jewish nationalists, liberals, and ...

Research by Moshe Weinfeld and Matthias Klinghardt among others has shown that virtually every structural element of this ancient Jewish writing has analogs in the charters of guilds and religious ...

Franz Kafka,” an exhibition at Midtown’s Morgan Library and Museum, includes “unique literary and biographical material.” ...

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 ...

But ancient Jewish communities felt free to translate ... The Torah (instruction or “Law”), Nevi’im (Prophets), and Ketuvim (Writings). The first letters of these Hebrew words are put ...

Irving Howe was the child of Jews who emigrated from Eastern Europe in the early 1900s. He helped to forge the democratic ...