I have produced a recognizable body of scholarship on ancient Jewish and Christian prayers and hymns. During the formative period of biblical scholarship in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth ...

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Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library’s exhibit, “Sacred Words: Revealing the Earliest Hebrew Book.” A medieval manuscript, ...

On Shemini Atzeret, the eighth day of Sukkot, Jews read tefillat geshem, an ancient Hebrew prayer for rain, during synagogue services. The prayer beseeches God to bring the Land of Israel enough rain ...

BERLIN -- Every Friday evening, Conny Jarosch and her 6-year-old daughter, Alisa, each light two candles, raise their hands to their closed eyes and recite an ancient Hebrew prayer to welcome the ...