Many years ago, a Catholic colleague asked me to give a talk to a lay Catholic group about how reading the Bible could be enhanced by knowing the Hebrew language. I thought that the 23 rd Psalm would ...

For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand. "I'm ...

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, and the work of those earlier translators like John Rogers, Myles Coverdale and William Tyndale, whose scholarship and ...