Tanakh

'The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel': Groundbreaking way to explore the Book of Samuel - review

Koren’s new Samuel does more than explain the biblical text. Through archaeology, maps, manuscripts, and photography, it restores the physical world in which the story unfolded.

HANNAH PRESENTS her infant son Samuel to the high priest Eli, painted by Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, c. 1665.
Taking in a Tanach lecture, Alon Shvut.

At Israel's biggest Bible study gathering, thousands turn to Tanakh for answers on politics

THREE GENERATIONS learning together: Brondie Levine with daughter Nechama Weiss and granddaughter Shira Levine.

Herzog College Bible festival connects ancient texts to modern Israel - preview

 IDF soldiers from the 146th Reserves Division begin operations in southern Lebanon.

Parashat Hukat haftarah: The argument that persists


Meet the rabbi behind a new transliterated Chumash for Romanians

Rabbi Sorin Rosen has been working for seven years trying to finish his transliterated version of the Chumash into Romanian for the Jewish community in Romania.

Bucharest, Romania

Herzog College: Bible study days inspire and connect on campus, online

Rabbi Dr. Yehuda Brandes: “Every profession has its annual conference, and the Yemei Iyun B’Tanach is where Tanach teachers come from all over the globe for inspiration and mentorship.”

 Part of the crowd at Herzog College’s Yemei Iyun.

Int'l Bible Contest for Youth held in person for 1st time since COVID-19

Chidon Ha’tanach, the International Bible Contest for Youth, takes place annually on Israel’s Independence Day.

 Contestants from around the world at the Jewish Agency building, meeting with Yaakov Hagoel.

Mishpatim: Murder hornets in Israel

Jewish history is all about patterns – what happened before is bound to happen again.

 A RADIO tracking device fitted by entomologists is seen on an Asian giant hornet before it led researchers to a colony in a tree near Blaine, Washington, in October.

The Magerman edition of the Koren Tanach is a landmark event

The beauty, felicity and scholarship inherent in Sacks’s rendering of the Torah into elegant modern English are apparent on every one of its 498 pages.

Rabbi Jonathan Sacks

Independence Day: Gilad Abrahomov, 16, wins International Bible Quiz

As ever, the participants had to contend with the most detailed minutiae from the Bible, answering questions spanning the entire Biblical canon.

Gilad Abrahomov, 16, wins the 2021 International Bible Quiz for Youth on Israel's 73rd Independence Day, April 15, 2021.

Mount Ebal – more than meets the eye

Ebal has much more significance to the Jewish nation than is common knowledge.

The Mount Ebal excavation site

Prof. Yair Zakovitch to receive Israel Prize in Bible Studies

"Yair Zakovitch is one of the most original biblical scholars in Israel and around the world," said the committee in its decision.

Prof. Yair Zakovitch

Vilna Gaon's Tanach binding discovered in Jerusalem

The binding shall be put up for public auction next week in Kedem Auction House in Jerusalem.

Binding of the Vilna Gaon’s Tanach

How it really was: Obsessed or betrayed?

From my love of Hebrew and the language of the Bible and of our prayer book, I created in my mind a Jewishness and Judaism that synthesized and embraced the humanistic ideals.

Avraham Avi-hai and part of his large, four-generation family