Inscriptions and Ostraca: Everyday Writing from Ancient Israel
Long before the Bible was bound in leather, Hebrew was scratched onto potsherds, carved into...
May 2024
The Tel Dan Stele and the House of David
In 1993, excavators at Tel Dan in northern Israel unearthed fragments of a ninth-century BC...
Hesed: The Hebrew Word English Can’t Quite Capture
Translators render the Hebrew word hesed as “lovingkindness,” “steadfast love,” “mercy,” or “covenant loyalty” —...
Codex Sinaiticus: The Oldest Complete New Testament
Produced around AD 350 and associated with St. Catherine’s Monastery beneath Mount Sinai, Codex Sinaiticus...
The Divine Name: How YHWH Was Written and Read
The personal name of God appears more than 6,800 times in the Hebrew Bible, written...