Hebrew Bible
Americannoun
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The stories of the Hebrew Bible frequently relate to central questions of family life: where to settle, whom to marry, when to have children.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 11, 2025
Carly L. Crouch, professor of Hebrew Bible and ancient Judaism at Radboud University in the Netherlands, contributed to this article.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 20, 2025
In 1861, two weeks after South Carolina seceded from the Union, Morris Jacob Raphall, the Orthodox rabbi of B’nai Jeshurun synagogue in New York, gave a sermon proclaiming that the Hebrew Bible endorsed slavery.
From Slate ● Apr. 10, 2025
Austen Hartke realized he was transgender in seminary, where he was studying the Hebrew Bible; he came out as soon as he graduated.
From New York Times ● May 17, 2024
William thought about the texts that he and I had read together—the great Rashi, who had shown our bishops the errors in our translations of the Hebrew Bible.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
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