A traveling workshop of TAU's Orit Guardians program discovered two 15th-century Orit books—the oldest found to date in the ...

Martin: And does that diminish your perception of the book as sacred? Zoltan: No, I love that it's messy in such an obvious way. It's not pernicious. It's not sneaky about how messed up it is.

These sacred texts, written in Ge'ez, a language known only to the Kessim (Ethiopian Jewish priests), hold significant cultural and historical importance.

Jewish law calls for holy books and articles containing the name of God to be disposed of with the same respect as human beings. Often placed in a synagogue’s underground storage unit called a ...

Sacred texts -- Jewish Bibles, Christian Bibles, Qur´ans, prayer books, psalters, haggadot, translations of and commentaries on Scripture -- were at the center of book production for Jews, Christians ...

Mr. Margolick, a former reporter for The Times, is working on a book about Dr. Jonas Salk for the “Jewish Lives” series published by Yale University Press. April 2, 2021 ...

An exhibition, Popol Vuh: The Sacred Book of the Quiché through Illustration, featuring 65 original artworks by artist Jaime Arredondo is on view at Irving Archives and Museum.

The book weighs 25 pounds and is more than 1,000 pages long. It is roughly the size of the Gutenberg Bible. Instead of the word of God, it contains names — 125,284 names.