Is there a right way to read the Bible? This question came to me as I was reading "The Good Book," by David Plotz. The author, who is the editor of Slate, was thumbing through the Hebrew Bible at his ...

Genia Kutner, 86, of Delray Beach, believes that every Jew should know how to read Hebrew. Kutner said: “It’s important for a people to have a common language. Without a common language, the Jewish ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Download an MP3 audio interview with the author here, or sign up for Slate’s free daily podcast on iTunes. I have always been a proud Jew, but never a terribly observant one. Several weeks ago, I made ...

Eighty-nine percent of American households own a Bible — on average, four per home — and a new study has discovered frequent Bible reading can turn people liberal, at least in some ways. Research ...

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings ...