I’m afraid there’s no way to write this column without sounding like a nerd of the first order. But let’s face it. I am, alas, a nerd of the first order. Specifically, I’m a Bible nerd. If possible, ...

Thanks for all the excellent e-mails about the Song of Songs. Several of you argued that the maiden’s “navel” is not her navel, if you get my (southward) drift. My brief research didn’t settle the ...

Long before science fiction contemplated revisiting and revising events of former years, the Bible did so, in the Book of Ruth. What would have been if for a moment, all was right: if inequalities ...

No matter how familiar with these moving stories you think you might be, you will learn a great deal more by reading Rabbi Benjamin Segal’s extraordinary book about the Scroll of Ruth. The Book of ...

The Book of Ruth, universally honored as “one of the most charming short stories in Hebrew literature,” and standing in contrast to the stories of war and military violence in Judges and Samuel, ...

It’s hard to find a conversation in the Bible between two women. Sarah and Rebecca never speak to another woman in Genesis. Rachel and Leah speak with one another just once. Deena, Jacob’s daughter, ...

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Paul Prather says the Bible is endlessly interesting because of its allusions, and the long stretch of history. Wavebreakmedia Getty Images/iStockphoto I’m afraid there’s no way to write this column ...