Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

In Chinese calligraphy, the white space (空白 kōng bái) is as important as the ink. It reflects the Daoist concept of emptiness ...

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Israeli researchers uncovered dozens of newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll fragments containing biblical texts dating back ...

Algorithms reward extremes — the flashy, the provocative, the viral — not the nuanced or the complex. Judaism will suffer for ...

This week’s books include a story inspired by Slavic folktales, crime fiction from an Indigenous perspective, a trip back to ...

When the boy Shankara came before his gurutobe for the first time he was asked the usual question Who are you Shankara responded in an unusual manner He replied in verse a short poem of six stanzas co ...

Everybody is born as one single individual but by the time he is mature enough to participate in life he has become a crowd This is almost the case with everybody Become aware of itIf you just sit sil ...

How Irving Thalberg helped turn M-G-M into the world’s most famous movie studio—and gave the film business a new sense of artistry and scale.

No manuscripts of the Hebrew Bible date to the First Temple period (circa 1200 ... "Machines can be helpful in isolating features of a script, but the presence of a gifted palaeographer is at least as ...

E VER SINCE the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered by Bedouin shepherds in the 1940s, debate has raged over their exact age. The scrolls, which contain the earliest surviving copies ...

Our arrival in Llandudno, Conwy, North Wales was on a Friday, where we chose to attend the Llandudno Hebrew Congregation Synagogue for Rosh Hashanah and Shabbat services.