Honoring the late Rabbi Abraham Hamra, the chief rabbi of Syrian Jewry, the library unveiled several of the 12 fragile ...

In the Hebrew Bible, Prophet Abraham is the first person to be called a “Hebrew” (Genesis 14:13). The term Hebrew comes from the verb ‘to go over a boundary’— like the Euphrates or ...

So is Abraham the founder of monotheism? Ancient Jewish storytellers thought ... Cohen: One of the main ideas of the Hebrew Scriptures is that the people of Israel relate to God through a covenant.

“There are three ancient Hebrew Bibles from this period,” said ... A man named Khalaf ben Abraham gave it to Isaac ben Ezekiel al-Attar, who gave it to his sons Ezekiel and Maimon.

“There are three ancient Hebrew Bibles from this period,” said ... A man named Khalaf ben Abraham gave it to Isaac ben Ezekiel al-Attar, who gave it to his sons Ezekiel and Maimon.

That may have seemed almost impossible less than 150 years ago, when the language was thought to exist only in ancient religious texts. For some two thousand years, Hebrew lay dormant as Jewish ...