Ten of the eleven potions in the book of Exodus and many portions in other of the five books of Moses begin with the Hebrew letter vav. Why? How should it be translated? Lexicographer Reuben Alcalay ...
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. Friends are the siblings God never gave us. Mencius (371-289 BC) was a Chinese ...
The Satanic Verses by Sir Salman Rushdie has returned to the shelves of Indian bookshops 36 years after sparking a fatwa that forced him into hiding for almost a decade. The book, which is ...
Salman Rushdie‘s novel The Satantic Verses hadn’t been sold in India, the country of the author’s birth, for 36 years, until this week. The novel, which forced the India-born author into ...
And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. Hope... is the companion of power, and the mother of ...
The 12 days of Christmas traditionally begin on Christmas Day and last twelve consecutive ... who introduced the familiar prolongation of the verse "five gold rings" (now usually called "five golden ...
Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses arrived at a bookstore in India 37 years after it was published. An import ban by the Rajiv Gandhi government kept it away from Rushdie's native country for almost ...
Salman Rushdie's, British-Indian novelist, controversial book "The Satanic Verses" has quietly returned ... was killed in his office. On August 12, 2022, Lebanese-American Hadi Matar stabbed ...