The Catholic OT Canon (also the numbering of the Psalms) came from the ancient Greek Septuagint Bible. Protestants, following the tradition of the Pharisaic Jews, accept the shorter Hebrew Canon ...

Many Americans have heard the expression “I am my beloved’s, and my beloved is mine” – in fact, a quick Google search turns ...

A certain consensus has been reached according to which by the end of the first century of our era, the long process of the formation of the Hebrew Bible was practically completed. This canon ...

The Book of Acts is the story of the establishment of Christianity in the first three decades of its existence. It relates ...

Further evidence of the book’s date is apparent in the fact that Daniel is excluded from the Hebrew Bible’s canon of the prophets, which was closed around 200 BC. The Wisdom of Sirach, a work dating ...

Please contact us in case of abuse. In case of abuse, There are many hundreds of markers of the difference between early biblical Hebrew and late biblical Hebrew, and they help us date the ...

It would spawn what is surely the most influential book of all time: the Bible. Merneptah’s Stele may describe more Jewish pain at the hands of their perennial Egyptian persecutors, but it at least ...

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There is a legend — undoubtedly true for the pious — that Jews went to their deaths singing Ani Maamin, “I believe with ...

(I remember Carol Meyers’s once pointing out that the enormous stylistic variety of the Bible’s Hebrew is one characteristic that eludes translation.) The canon of the Hebrew Bible was closed ...

The Mass schedule at St. Charles Catholic Church, 31 Cherry Hill St., is as follows: Wednesday through Friday at 9 a.m., ...

The generative and sustaining power of the Jewish bible arises from its literary power. Much of it is written with a distinctive but superb literary craft. The text is replete with elegant nuances ...