The plainspoken title of “How Old Is the Hebrew Bible?” by Ronald Hendel and Jan Joosten (Yale University Press) poses a simple question, but the answer is a work of scholarship that offers an elegant ...

Very rare early 20th century Yale University postcard with the Urim v’Tumim. (Editor’s note: we have slightly altered the image in the interests of modesty.) Yale’s founders and early leaders, who ...

Michael Walzer frankly announces at the outset of “In God’s Shadow: Politics in the Hebrew Bible” (Yale University Press: $28.00) that he is approaching the Scriptures not as a biblical scholar but as ...

Christian-Jewish relations today will be among the topic discussed at a conference being hosted Sunday-Monday, Oct. 24-25, by the Yale Divinity School. Titled “New Frontiers in Christian-Jewish ...

A Karaite dictionary of the Bible, yielded up by the basement of a synagogue in Jerusalem after lying forgotten for 800 years, has been published by the Yale University Press and has already shed new ...

When the Texas Board of Education voted last month in favor of a proposal that would emphasize the religious origins of democracy in high school curricula, many liberals were outraged. It seemed to ...

The Hillel Children’s School at Yale may offer specific lessons on such topics as the meaning of the Sabbath or how to read a Hebrew prayer, but the most important thing it aims to teach its students ...