And it must have been a wonderful book, but all we have is a kind of learned footnote. Q: If it's an anthology, what ties the Bible together? Coogan: More than anything else, the Bible is an ...

The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at the ...

The King James Version of the Bible was first published in 1611. Its literary brilliance is well known and ... Cambridge has reissued that edition as part of its digital reprint programme for classic ...

The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition ...

Q: The Bible chronology puts Moses much later in time ... These were people rebelling against their corrupt Canaanite overlords. In my recent book on early Israel I characterize the Israelite ...

‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except ... derived from the Greek biblia, “books”—to its present status ...

Nicholas Sparks can't always remember the way a book idea comes to him, but for the bestselling author's newest novel, ...

Whether you know your Scriptures chapter and verse or you rarely take a peek at the Good Book, these Bible facts will surprise you. Though the word Bible comes from the Greek word biblios ...

2 Timothy 3:16-17 The Bible has many different uses for Christians. It can be seen as a guidebook for life where Christians can turn to for advice, guidance and reassurance. Christianity teaches ...

In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim ...

National Geographic explores notable biblical figures in our ongoing series People in the Bible, as part of our coverage of the history of the Bible and the search for sacred texts. How Jesus's ...

The Catholic Church teaches that the Bible accounts and stories have to be understood within the time that they were written. The authors of the biblical books had limited knowledge of science and ...