Israel Must Seek to Come Out Ahead in Its New Battle with Hamas
Bringing the assault on border communities to an end.
March 27, 2019
By Recycling, a Medieval Jew Preserved a Major Work of Christian Bible Scholarship
The Hexapla in the Genizah.
Composed by the church father Origen in the 3rd century CE, the Hexapla (“six-fold”) contained, in parallel columns, the text of the Hebrew Bible, a transliteration into Greek, and four different Greek translations. The work was a key tool of ancient Christian biblical scholarship, including Origen’s own. While no complete versions, or even complete pages, of the Hexapla are extant, a fragment discovered in the Cairo Genizah—a repository of used books and document at a medieval synagogue—sheds light on what the original may have looked like. Benjamin Kantor writes:
March 27, 2019
What the Proposed Senate Resolution on Anti-Semitism Gets Right
Instead of treating Jews as a metaphor, it enumerates the ways in which individuals have suffered.
A Key Border Crossing between Iraq and Syria Is about to Fall into Iranian Hands
Completing the land bridge.
By Recycling, a Medieval Jew Preserved a Major Work of Christian Bible Scholarship
The Hexapla in the Genizah.
Nathan of Rome, Author of the First Jewish Dictionary
An 11th-century talmudic encyclopedia.