Following the 17th century King James Bible, standard English translations of the Hebrew Old Testament have been based on Hebrew “Masoretic” copies from the Middle Ages. However, in 1947, Palestinian ...

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Does the Orthodox Church teach that the Septuagint is more reliable than the Hebrew text of the Old Testament? If so, why? Fr. John Whiteford talks about the "Bible according to the Seventy". ...the ...

In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...

We have written in a previous article (“The Neutralization of the Netherworld”) that the Septuagint translation of the Old Testament represents an ancient and authentic Hebrew tradition. Due to the ...

I respond to the Thursday Dispatch article “Book details ex-Buckeye’s journey to Judaism.” The data is clear: A comparison of the Septuagint (a Greek version of the Jewish Scriptures redacted in the ...

A team of academics is aiming to correct centuries-old errors in the Hebrew Bible, but some are questioning the wisdom of their endeavor. LOS ANGELES (JTA ...

David Solomon Sassoon was the owner of one of the most impressive private collections of Hebrew manuscripts. Among his manuscripts was an early and complete Hebrew Bible, which was called the Codex ...