Dr Daniel McClellan, an honorary fellow at the University of Birmingham has finally revealed the back story of Jesus' supposed 'middle name'.

I began researching the word “Hell” used seven times in Matthew’s Gospel. I learned that Matthew’s Gospel was first written ...

Each of its nine chapters includes source material from biblical verses, Talmudic discussions, and classical and contemporary responsa, in Hebrew/Aramaic and English, presented chronologically. ‘ ...

It also includes a 17th century Yemenite manuscript of the Pentateuch that contains floral patterns made from Hebrew verses, modeled after similar art from the Islamic world. Nothing could be more ...

The Times report also noted that the inscription is written in a version of Paleo-Hebrew, an alphabet that was replaced among mainstream Jews by a variant of the Aramaic alphabet more than 2,000 ...

Judeo-Syrian Arabic is a linguistic relic of Syria’s Jewish past, blending the Levantine Arabic spoken by the majority population with Hebrew and Aramaic elements. For centuries, it was no one's ...

Alhadeff helped me understand that the pairing of blessings and foods during yehi ratzones is, at its heart, Hebrew and Aramaic wordplay. Puns, really, that rely on certain words for foods ...