Simply reading a text involves interpretation ... early Christians believed that the Hebrew Bible was God's book, and therefore a book that should cast light on current events and moral conundrums.

Dever: No Egyptian text mentions the Israelites except the ... but there is a sort of egalitarianism in the Hebrew Bible: "Every man under his own fig tree, equal in the eyes of Yahweh." ...

The text of the Hebrew Bible - whose 24 books make up what Christians call the Old Testament - remained in flux until the early Middle Ages, when Jewish scholars known as Masoretes began to create ...

The Wilderness Narrative in the Hebrew Bible is an eye-opening interpretive journey through ... However, it also has much to offer students and scholars seeking fresh insights into the biblical text, ...

Christians refer to them as the Old Testament. The text of the Hebrew Bible remained in flux until the early Middle Ages, when Jewish scholars known as Masoretes began to create a body of notes ...