Read Mordechai Beck's interview with Avivah Zornberg. Most readers think Leviticus is about dull things: priests and their sacrificial offerings, blood taboos and bodily fluids, the holiness code. In ...

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Eighty-one years ago, while America was at war and millions of Jews were being slaughtered, the rabbi of the Washington ...

The Bible is already the most translated book ever—it is available in full in more than 750 languages—but they would like to ...

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Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

When the 3 rd -century Christian theologian Origen of Alexandria attempted to account for the unusual movements of the Star ...

Our columnist on the books that wowed her this year. By Sarah Weinman Writing under a pseudonym, Madeleine Wickham cultivated an international following for her series centered on a young woman ...

From a "richly atmospheric" novella to a "virtuosic" debut – this is the very best fiction of the year, as chosen by BBC journalists. This part-fictionalised historical novel from the bestselling ...

Daniel Blumberg says his motto writing music for The Testament of Ann Lee was "it has to be as extreme as possible." ...

One of my favorite holiday traditions is getting comfy, grabbing my favorite holiday drink and treat, and settling down with a stack of the best Christmas novels, new and old. Is there anything cozier ...

Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai and Dwight Garner look back at the books that, as Jacobs writes, “bonked me on the head this year.” Our critic A.O. Scott feels the heat of a wintry lyric by the ...