Inscriptions and Ostraca: Everyday Writing from Ancient Israel
Long before the Bible was bound in leather, Hebrew was scratched onto potsherds, carved into...
Word Studies
Hesed: The Hebrew Word English Can’t Quite Capture
Translators render the Hebrew word hesed as “lovingkindness,” “steadfast love,” “mercy,” or “covenant loyalty” —...
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...
The Septuagint: Why the Greek Old Testament Matters
Beginning in the third century BC, Jewish translators in Alexandria rendered the Hebrew Scriptures into...