Why Bob Dylan’s haunting comeback album sounds just as Jewish as it ever did
1997's 'Time Out of Mind,' with its nods to Solomon and Samson gets a redo courtesy of Columbia Records
1997's 'Time Out of Mind,' with its nods to Solomon and Samson gets a redo courtesy of Columbia Records
Sunday night, after Jews around the world mourn the destruction of the Temples in Jerusalem on Tisha B’av, CNN will premiere a series that — in so many words — traces 3,000 years’ worth of conflict to the laying of those structures’ cornerstones. Solomon’s Temple, author Susan Wise Bauer argues in “Jerusalem: City of Faith…
A skilled paleographer or specialist in ancient writing can sometimes guess what a mere fragment of that writing is about. A month ago, Haifa University biblical historian Gershon Galil published such a guess in an Israeli journal. If he’s right, not only has he correctly deciphered a puzzling inscription written in the ancient Phoenician/Hebrew alphabet,…
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