According to a Gallup poll taken last month, 40% of Americans believe that the Bible is the literal record of words spoken by God. A new crop of books from Yale University Press shows why this belief ...
Answer: Let me begin by saying there are those who believe God simply spoke to ancient writers who transcribed verbatim what they heard. Interestingly, most who hold this view seem to prefer the King ...
Why was the Hebrew Bible written? In Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins (Cambridge, Oct. 19), Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University Jacob L. Wright offers ...
The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...
The first Bible to feature a map of the Holy Land was published 500 years ago in 1525. The map was initially printed the ...
When the printing press was invented nearly 600 years ago, it put an end to centuries of hand-written manuscripts in which scribes, mostly in monasteries, tediously wrote and illustrated sacred texts, ...
For a text commonly thought of as foundational, it can feel odd to think that there was a time when it didn’t really exist. The Bible, though, has a birthday, and no one knows quite when it is. On ...
TAOS, N.M. — Virgil, Homer, Ovid, Cicero, Plato, Aristotle, and many others, all wrote using an identical underlying literary structure. This same structure was used by each of the biblical writers, ...
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