The world’s earliest alphabet, inscribed on stone slabs found at a number of Egyptian sites, was an early form of Hebrew, according to a new analysis. According to the new study by the Wilfrid Laurier ...

Last winter, as Israelis reeled from the trauma of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attack and subsequent war in Gaza, Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum director Risa Levitt happened upon the artwork of ...

"A truly beautiful letter," writes the Israeli artist Izzy Pludwinski in his new book, "The Beauty of the Hebrew Letter," "will possess a dynamism, an internal lifeforce." "Letters," he adds, "are the ...

The language of the world's first alphabet could have been Hebrew. This is according to an archaeologist who has spent the past four years piecing together the letters of the alphabet from ...

Jay Kelly, or Why I Skipped the Sergio Leone Award When White’s Not Right Audio By Carbonatix In her engrossing new book, classicist Sarah Ruden puts the Hebrew and Greek texts under the microscope.

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