A 1,200-year-old parchment Jewish prayer book that is billed as the oldest in existence was introduced Sept. 27 by a prominent private collector of Biblical artifacts.

Scholars are calling a rare Hebrew text dating back to the 9th century the earliest known Jewish prayer book, predating the world's oldest Torah scroll. The 50-page book is 4.3 inches tall and ...

Jewish Prayer Book. November 16, 2007 BOB ABERNETHY, anchor: There has been a new development in the Reform movement of Judaism, the largest and most liberal branch of Judaism in the U.S. There ...

If he is right, this Jewish prayer book will be the Western world’s first printed book (that we know of). For now, the book is residing in the home safe of the American Jew who bought it.

When the holiest days in the Jewish calendar begin Sunday at sundown, Jews worldwide will be praying for repentance and a good new year. For Reform Jews using a new High Holy Days prayer book ...

JERUSALEM – An Israeli museum has unveiled what it says in the oldest known Jewish prayer book in the world. The Bible Lands Museum in Jerusalem says the prayer book has been carbon dated by ...

In Hebrew and English, the new pocket-sized, 650-page prayer book, known as a “siddur” in Hebrew, includes prayers for daily use, for Shabbat (the Jewish Sabbath) and for holidays.

Revised Jewish prayer book speaks to gay equality, women and doubt. March 9, 2015. By Michelle Boorstein. Is God a majestic king on a throne with unbounded power or a “beloved friend and partner”?

Prayer books have been found in many Jewish households since the 19th century, the agency said. This fragment unearthed during road excavation in Germany shows passages from a Jewish prayer book.

A powerful image of a Jewish prayer book damaged with a bullet hole was released as evidence Wednesday in the death penalty trial of the man accused of killing 11 worshippers at a Pittsburgh ...

Learn more about the In the Margins of a Medieval Jewish Prayer Book: What Can Physical Manuscripts Tell Us about History? course here including a course overview, cost information, related jobs ...