Translations often led to misinterpretations, allowing the translator to impose his own view of the text into the original. This leads to controversy in almost every rendition of ancient works. Any translator can read into and almost rewrite the original work with what they deem true by extracti...

Understanding the sublime is one of the keys to understanding Judaism. The sublime infuses the writings of the Torah. The ancient writers wrote of the sublime and the sublime has colored the interpretations of the Holy Scriptures throughout history in Jewish thought. Heschel and other writers wrote ...

People read The Bible for many different reasons, such as it is just a part of their faith so they have to. Others read it because the stories are interesting, and still others read the stories because of the moral and ethical messages the stories convey. Many people, when reading The Bible, do n...

A close examination of the Bible reveals that Moses' accomplishments are much more grandiose/ambitious than those of Abraham. By contrast, one could dispute this claim with the notion that Moses and Abraham have the same basic mission from God, and the same basic relationship with God: they are bot...