The fourth book of Moses is called Numbers in the English Bible, and this follows the usage of the Greek Septuagint translation. In the Hebrew it is called Bammidhbar (“In the wilderness”). The former ...

Since I am curious about new versions of the Bible, I picked up a copy of The Books of the Bible, an edition without section headings or chapter and verse divisions. Simply the plain text, in the NIV ...

No one can accuse Joshua Cohen of being short on chutzpah. His new novel, "Book of Numbers," borrows its title from the Bible, and his creation myth about the birth of the Internet age aims to be as ...