The oldest recorded alphabet may be Hebrew. According to a controversial new study by archaeologist and ancient inscription specialist Douglas Petrovich, Israelites in Egypt took 22 ancient ...

The dates of Hanukkah are determined by the Hebrew calendar and not the Gregorian calendar, which is used by most of the world. This creates a shift in when the holiday is celebrated each year.

Hebraic Letters of the Shema Panel and Decorative Motifs of Panel, (painting) Smithsonian American Art Museum and its Renwick Gallery. Object Details painter Rattner, Abraham 1895-1978 Notes ...

In his Letters & Wonders gallery in the Cardo, the ancient Roman marketplace beneath the Old City of Jerusalem, Shear creates and displays his scribed parchments as well as decorative marriage ...

A sculpture of the golem made up of carvings of Jewish letters, by artist Joshua Abarbanel and displayed in the Jewish Museum in Berlin. Sean Gallup/Getty Images ‘Coding’ everywhere you look. Like the ...

In the basement studios of Minnesota Center for Book Arts, wood type fills drawers and cabinets, its nicks and scratches hinting at decades of printing history. But upstairs sits a box of type ...

An Italian expert in Hebrew manuscripts says he has found the oldest known complete Torah scroll, a sheepskin document dating from 1155-1225. Photograph by Alma Mater Studiorum Universita' di Bologna ...