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Koren Press’ “The Koren Tanakh of the Land of Israel – Leviticus” follows its predecessors on the Biblical books Exodus and Samuel as a third outstanding biblical commentary. It contains a wealth of ...

In the biblical field (as in other disciplines) there are matters of debate that remain unsettled, at least for now. The volumes in this year’s survey of books on the Bible represent areas in which ...

Years ago, when I told my young son about a Bible commentary I was writing, he paused for a minute and then dryly commented, “So it’s a book about a book.” A humbling but apt assessment! If a Bible ...

St. Jerome is known for his Biblical translations and commentaries. The Jerome Biblical Commentary, probably the most well-known modern English commentary in the United States (though not without some ...

Dr. Strauss is the author/coauthor of 20 books and many articles, and editor/co-editor of 40 volumes, with expertise in Gospels, Hermeneutics and Bible Translation. He also serves as Vice Chair of the ...

Set during a period of instability and impending exile, the book of Jeremiah reflects on religious, political, and cultural concerns of the 7th-6th centuries BCE. With a mix of poetic oracles, prose ...

Some scholars believe that the Qur’an’s teachings are based on Judeo-Christian subtext (as do many Christian theologians); others believe the Qur’an to be the last link in the chain of the Abrahamic ...

To a young Jessica Sacks growing up in England, the country’s towering chief rabbi, Jonathan Sacks, was more than just a distant religious figure — he was an uncle. “He was very busy, so we didn’t get ...