A breakthrough in the research of the Hebrew scriptures has shed new light on the period in which the Bible was written. Professor Gershon Galil of the Department of Biblical Studies at the ...

And God created man in his image, in the image of God [b’tselem elohim] he created him; male and female he created them.” One is assailed by questions.

Most ancient Hebrew biblical inscription deciphered, scholar says Date: January 8, 2010 Source: University of Haifa Summary: An inscription dating from the 10th century BCE (the period of King ...

The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

Joel S. Baden, Hithpael and Niphal in Biblical Hebrew: Semantic and Morphological Overlap, Vetus Testamentum, Vol. 60, Fasc. 1 (2010), pp. 33-44 ...

But this doesn’t mean that modern Hebrew can’t be used as a bridge to biblical Hebrew, over which contemporary students can cross to one from the other. What matters is getting to the other ...

According to Babbel, 8.3 million Israelis and 1 million people outside Israel speak Hebrew. Although Hebrew was considered a dead language by the third century CE, developing a greater understanding ...

The lengthened imperative ָקטְלָה is a salient feature of biblical Hebrew grammar. It is generally understood in one of three ways: as a stylistic variant of the regular imperative ְקטׁל, as a more ...