The term “Old Testament” is a loaded one since it assumes the existence of a “new” testament — an idea Christians and ...

Using the Hebrew Scripture would have been as effective ... is not alone in accepting the Books which Protestants label as "Apocrypha." The Coptic, Greek and Russian Orthodox churches also ...

The events of the four books about the Maccabees’ victories over the Syrian-Greeks are not found in the Hebrew Bible. But the books of the Maccabees, now found in the Apocrypha, were written ...

In mainstream American culture Yiddish — an Eastern European blend of German with a great many Hebrew, Aramaic and Slavic words — is these days either a punchline (a “chutzpah” or a “klu ...

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