Joshua 16
…vayetse ha-goral, stands in six verses of the Hebrew Bible — this one, two more tribal lots later in this…
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Ruth — Introduction
…One of the Five Megillot (Festival Scrolls) of the Hebrew Bible, read aloud at Shavuot, the harvest feast — fitting for…
1 Samuel — Introduction
📜 Table of Contents › 1 Samuel 📖 1 Samuel שְׁמוּאֵל א Shemuel Alef — '1 Samuel.' In the Hebrew Bible…
Lamentations — Introduction
…Hebrew book. Five poems over a burned city, four of them alphabetical — the most formally controlled writing in the Bible…
Isaiah 53
…it is the most argued-over passage in the Hebrew Bible and the argument is textual, not merely theological. The…
Nahum — Introduction
…the famous 'good news / him who publishes peace' verse is Hebrew 2:1, which English Bibles renumber 1:15 (so…
Ezra — Introduction
…12345678910 Chapter by chapter Ezra 1The book opens on the sentence the Hebrew Bible ENDS on. Chronicles closes the Jewish…
Ecclesiastes 1
…It occurs ten times in this book and nowhere else in the Hebrew Bible. The question of Ecclesiastes is therefore…
Song of Solomon 1
…There is nothing else quite like that in the Hebrew Bible. The strange pronoun shift in verse 2 is in…
Song of Solomon — Introduction
…modern Bibles are editorial; the manuscripts have none), and they are identified only by the gender of the Hebrew verbs…
