From a disparate collection of writings that first emerged deep in the distant past Barton charts the gradual emergence of both the Old and the New Testaments and their evolution into what have become ...

Why was the Hebrew Bible written? In Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins (Cambridge Univ., out now), Jacob L. Wright, Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University, ...

An international research team led by Duke University used artificial intelligence to analyze the first nine books of the ...

The Moshiach came to Madison Avenue this summer. All over a not particularly Jewish neighborhood, posters of the bearded, Rembrandtesque Rebbe Schneerson appeared, mucilaged to every light post and ...

A new film billed as the New Testament's "origin story" aims to make an impact as younger generations show an increasing interest in faith and the Bible. "I could not have looked two years ahead and ...

Timothy Beal is a religion professor at Case Western Reserve University and the author of 11 books about the Bible and religion. Raised as an Evangelical Christian, he came to realize that the Bible ...

The Bible is the best-selling book in the history of mankind. For billions of people throughout the world, its origins are considered divine. For many intellectuals who are otherwise non-believers ...

The history of American Bible interpretation can give us some answers. Along with workers worried about their jobs and conspiratorial types worried about a robot takeover, many scholars and pastors ...