Does the Orthodox Church teach that the Septuagint is more reliable than the Hebrew text of the Old Testament? If so, why? Fr. John Whiteford talks about the "Bible according to the Seventy". ...the ...
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In this painting by English artist William Hole (1846-1917) the Masoretes are depicted working on an authoritative text of the Old Testament in the city of Tiberias on the western shore of the Sea of ...
Following the 17th century King James Bible, standard English translations of the Hebrew Old Testament have been based on Hebrew “Masoretic” copies from the Middle Ages. However, in 1947, Palestinian ...
LOS ANGELES (JTA) — According to Jewish tradition, the Torah is so sacred that even a single error made on a single letter renders the entire scroll unusable. And ...
This is the text of a talk I’m to give tonight, God willing, for the Tiqqun Leil Shavu‘ot at Chabad of the Central Valley. I hope readers of the Times of Israel will find it of interest: This talk ...
There are a number of cases in the Pentateuch when chapters in both Hebrew and non-Hebrew printed editions start at different places within one verse of each other. Masoretic sectional divisions of a ...
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