The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

“Art is national. We can have great art if we are rooted in the soil,” Menachem Ussishkin stated in a 1926 response to the growing number of modern-art exhibitions in Jerusalem. His words echoed the ...

Translating the Bible well is not just a matter of making it sound good, but also representing what actually goes on in the Hebrew literary text faithfully and accurately. (Volodymyr Zakharov / iStock ...