From this perspective, biblical literature is closer to Einstein’s understanding of the universe than it is to western literature. To read the Bible in Hebrew is to encounter the world of quantum ...

Aviya Kushner knew the Bible in its original Hebrew by heart, but when she took a graduate course on the Old Testament, the author didn’t recognize the text she had grown up with. The experience ...

Temple House of Israel, 15 N. Market St., will lead a study of Elementary Biblical Hebrew grammar from 4 to 5:30 p.m. April 3, 10 and 17. The session are free and open to anyone who already knows the ...

In her first book, Kushner, who teaches writing at Columbia College in Chicago, reports on her travels through the Bible in English translation. Thoroughly modern, though steeped in Jewish tradition ...

Aviya Kushner tells us in her “The Grammar of God,” an interesting and informative book, that readers of the Hebrew Bible who do not know Hebrew and read only a translation will generally not know ...

He found ‘awesome reality of a living God’ in the grammar and syntax of Hebrew Scripture. Francis I. Andersen, an Australian scholar who spent more than 35 years analyzing the syntax of the Hebrew ...