You'd think that the answer would be an easy, "yes," but a startling number of people--including New Testament scholars--say "no." I'm always taken aback when I'm reading along and suddenly encounter ...

Some folks have the idea that the authors of the New Testament did not know that they were writing Scripture. According to this view, they just thought they were writing Christian literature, and the ...

The Song of Songs is a love poem, sensually specific. It doesn’t mention God. The Book of Esther, writes Robert Alter, is a “kind of carnivalesque political fairy tale” -- again, no mention of the ...

Bible Across America tour will produce two handwritten copies. Mandy Helton Jones had planned to spend the next couple of months traveling to Asia and Australia with her new husband, Jon. But when she ...

Reading the Bible from cover to cover might seem like a heavy task. But what about writing it? Host Michel Martin speaks with Phillip Patterson, who is just two verses away from writing out the whole ...

SPENCERTOWN, N.Y. – At last, it is written. Four years after he began his project to write out every word of the Bible, Phillip Patterson penned the very last lines Saturday at an upstate New York ...

Computer scientists have used various editions of The Bible to develop an algorithm that identifies different author’s writing styles, Inside Science reported. The researchers -- comprising computer ...

Twenty six hundred years ago, a band of Judahite soldiers kept watch on their kingdom’s southern border in the final days before Jerusalem was sacked by Nebuchadnezzar. They left behind numerous ...