Robert Burns’s famous couplet came to mind as I read this book: “O wad some Pow’r the giftie gie us / To see oursels as ithers see us!” In this case, the “Power” is two Jewish scholars, Amy-Jill ...

In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

Important discoveries have been made in Palestine by the Wellcome Archaeological Research Expedition to the Near East which has been carrying out work in connection with Old Testament history. “Ten ...

If you go to Holland you go to see Rembrandt. For Rembrandt is the greatest man Holland has produced, and the greatest figure in the history of art of the last century. No other artist has delved so ...