Japanese pioneer Hebraist Takamitsu Muraoka died last week in Leiden, the Netherlands, at age 88, after suffering a stroke a few weeks earlier and never fully recovering. A specialist in Semitic ...

How would a New York Times obituary writer measure up to the scribes of the Book of the Dead? He found out at the Brooklyn Museum. A detail of the gilded Book of the Dead of Ankhmerwer, a funerary ...

A remarkable book reconstructs the mysterious paths of the Bibles, that is, twenty-three centuries of intricate routes, daring and courageous passages, far-sighted visions, and almost ...

Given the criticisms and denunciation that Brian Simmons has suffered since coming up with his The paraphrased translation - nay The Passion Translation (TPT) - of the Holy Bible, it rsquo;s a given ...

As signposted by its offbeat title, Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally takes a skewed approach to the pop staples of romance and dancing. The production, led by Styles’s usual collaborator Kid ...

There's something profoundly captivating about the phrase "lost to time." Throughout history, countless treasures, cities, ...

Driftwood Beach on Jekyll Island, Georgia is one of those rare spots that makes you question whether you’re still in the Southeast or somehow stumbled through a portal into another dimension. When the ...

In the Dead Sea region of Jordan, water has receded and formed isolated basins between salt formations. The exposed terrain reveals mineral-rich deposits shaped by evaporation. The Dead Sea, Jordan ...

You’ve seen it in bookstores – the metallic turquoise spine peeking out from the shelf under “Eastern Religions.” Or, perhaps, another of its more understated editions rendered in muted tones. It is ...

One of the manuscripts dates back nearly 3,500 years.

What does desire smell like? For the poets of Kolkata, it may once have smelled of bela flowers, devotion or a monsoon-soaked afternoon. But for those who have slipped past the edge of yearning, the ...

Popular paperbacks are being translated with the help of machines, raising anxiety among professionals in the field. By Jeanna Smialek Reporting from Brussels The European Union, with its 27 nations ...