Judging THE Book By Its Cover
2012-05-23T08:06:47Z

Flip through any translation or edition and there is a title page, publisher information, a table of contents, and page numbering. Modern Bibles usually ... Are the nuances of the ancient languages (Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek) flattened when a single English ...

The legend of the 36 righteous men
2012-05-19T20:21:40Z

The words "for him" in Hebrew are also "lamed vav" or the digits for 36 ... giving us our modern 360 degrees of a circle, may have influenced the numbering for the Talmudic sages. In medieval Jewish mysticism, the 36 men came to be known ...

Zimbabwe's 'black Jews' observe traditions
2012-05-18T10:28:43Z

But now that hard science has proved it, we are now happy that what we have been telling them has now come to be the truth," said Hamandishe, who has visited Israel. Numbering around ... forgotten our original language (Hebrew)," Hamandishe said.