Is there a right way to read the Bible? This question came to me as I was reading "The Good Book," by David Plotz. The author, who is the editor of Slate, was thumbing through the Hebrew Bible at his ...

The Bible isn’t a rule book, an instruction manual, or a road map, says Peter Enns, a Hebrew Bible scholar and the host of the popular podcast The Bible for Normal People. Something more complicated ...

Genia Kutner, 86, of Delray Beach, believes that every Jew should know how to read Hebrew. Kutner said: “It’s important for a people to have a common language. Without a common language, the Jewish ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Download an MP3 audio interview with the author here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. I have always been a proud Jew, but never a terribly observant one. Several weeks ago, I made ...

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