Author Martha Barnette, cohost of the podcast ‘A Way with Words,’ digs deep into the quirks of language in her new book.

Printed by the Christian typographer Vincenzo Conti, this edition embodies both the splendor and the tragedy of Hebrew printing in 16th-century Italy. Conti, a singular figure in the annals of Jewish ...

Driven by ambitious goal, educators hope students develop greater 'sense of belonging to the wider Jewish world' ...

According to a survey by the Pew Research Center, only half of American Jews (52%) can read Hebrew. To fill this gap in Jewish education, the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute ...

While the biblical figure of Samson is often characterized as driven by poor judgment, a Hebrew Bible scholar argues why he ...

Hebrew Studies is a scholarly journal devoted to Hebrew language, linguistics, literature and culture of all periods. NAPH is the professional organization of professors and instructors in colleges, ...

The lengthened imperative ָקטְלָה is a salient feature of biblical Hebrew grammar. It is generally understood in one of three ways: as a stylistic variant of the regular imperative ְקטׁל, as a more ...

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Hebrew grammar has a rule that the last stressed vowel of a phrase or a sentence should be elongated; thus at the end of sentence גֶּפֶן becomes גָּפֶן, and at the end of a sentence ...