The Hebrew Bible that Jews read in synagogue and that scholars consult as the received text of the Old Testament has been transmitted through more than a thousand years in a form…
In May 2023 the ANU Museum of the Jewish People in Tel Aviv announced the acquisition, by donation, of a Hebrew Bible manuscript that had been absent from public view for most…
The lowest town on the western shore of the Sea of Galilee, Tiberias, was, by the late seventh century of the Common Era, the only place in the world where the Hebrew…
The text of the Hebrew Bible, as it now sits between the covers of a printed Mikraot Gedolot or a single-volume Hebrew Tanakh, looks deceptively clean. Page after page of square Aramaic…
In a reading room on the Neva, opposite the Winter Palace, a Hebrew Bible of nearly five hundred parchment folios lies open on a stand. Its pages are a soft cream, its…
