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 ...

From this perspective, biblical literature is closer to Einstein’s understanding of the universe than it is to western literature. To read the Bible in Hebrew is to encounter the world of quantum ...

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 ...

In her first book, Kushner, who teaches writing at Columbia College in Chicago, reports on her travels through the Bible in English translation. Thoroughly modern, though steeped in Jewish tradition ...

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 ...

My academic home since 2005 has been the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations at the University of Toronto. Ours is an old department (for North America), with roots in Oriental Studies ...