Aviya Kushner’s book The Grammar of God: A Journey Into the Words and Worlds of the Bibleis profoundly personal. Kushner grew up in a Hebrew-speaking, scholarly household in which the Bible—read in ...

Aviya Kushner knew the Bible in its original Hebrew by heart, but when she took a graduate course on the Old Testament, the author didn’t recognize the text she had grown up with. The experience ...

Robert Alter has accomplished the monumental feat, 22 years in the making, of single-handedly translating the Hebrew Bible into English. Since he began, Alter’s translation has been published in ...