Aleph is the reconstructed name of the first letter of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet, continued in descended Semitic alphabets as the Syriac ‘Ālaphܐ, Hebrew Aleph א, and Arabic Alif.

This is not to shrug off the troubling theology or ethics of the Old Testament. But it is to contend that the Old Testament holds more (and much more) than just such troubles. This is more than Boyd ...

Why the term ‘Old Testament’ is antisemitic Jun 16, 2025, 11:37 PM Edit. Share. Copy ... “Hebrew Scriptures” or “The Tanakh”, the short Hebrew form for saying, The Law, the ...

God’s creation of the Earth, Noah and the flood, Moses at the Red Sea: These pivotal stories from the Old Testament still resonate deeply with most Americans, who take the accounts literally ...

Plato and the Creation of the Hebrew Bible, from academic publisher Routledge Press, proposes a provocative new theory regarding when, where and why the Old Testament was written. According to the ...

He is, in my judgment, the most important and influential Old Testament scholar of the 20th century in the United States. The only other near candidate for that is Brevard Childs, who died in 2007. ..