I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

Koren Publishers Jerusalem is an Israeli publisher specializing in Jewish religious, biblical, and scholarly works. It was founded by the master typographer Eliyahu Koren, whose first major ...

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Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library’s exhibit, “Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest Hebrew Book.” A medieval manuscript, ...

We learn from the commentaries on the high holidays prayer Unetaneh Tokef, from Talmud Yoma, the Talmudic tractate on the Day ...

Prayer (in Hebrew, Tefillah) is central in Judaism. It serves as a parallel language to living life. To engage in prayer is to reflect, contemplate, and engage emotionally in ways that we might ...