The Iran Deal, One Year On
And what the next president can do.
June 14, 2016
Egyptian Loanwords in the Torah May Provide Evidence of the Exodus
The simplest explanation.
In a detailed linguistic analysis, Benjamin J. Noonan points to a preponderance of Hebrew words of Egyptian origin in the sections of the Pentateuch that describe the Exodus from Egypt and the Jews’ wanderings in the wilderness. He also argues that many of these words were most likely to have entered Hebrew in the late Bronze Age (the late 2nd millennium BCE)—the period during which the Exodus would most likely have taken place. While such an analysis cannot prove the historicity of the Exodus, it undoubtedly supports it:
June 14, 2016
The British Labor Party’s Anti-Semitism Problem
Putting Israel back in the headlines.
Can the Master of Hebrew Modernism Be Translated?
S. Y. Agnon in English.
Hillel Can’t Be a Soapbox for Jewish Students’ Anti-Israel Crusade
Not-so-open Hillel.
Egyptian Loanwords in the Torah May Provide Evidence of the Exodus
The simplest explanation.