Judaism: Sacred Texts

The term desire in the Hebrew Bible covers a wide range of human longings, emotions, and cravings. The direct and explicit term of desire is nevert...

In the majority of canonical lists, the Psalms and the book of Job sit next to one another, perhaps due to their size. They share a theme, lament, ...

Every work on Jewish thought and law since the twelfth century bears the imprint of Maimonides. A. N. Whiteheads famous dictum that the entire Euro...

What does it mean to speak of a canon of scripture? How, when, and where did the canon of the Hebrew Bible come into existence? Why does it have th...