A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

Time travel in this animation through the history of the Bible. Made with clay, wire, and recycled paper, the characters come to life in frame-by-frame motion. A version of this story appears in the ...

The Museum of the Bible wants to tell you the greatest story ever told. Just how the $500 million, 430,000-square-foot endeavor, located just two blocks south of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., ...

Traditional sources and scholars have long hypothesized the location of this sacred chest. But tracing its whereabouts is more difficult than it seems.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Ferrell’s survey of the history of Bible is often frustratingly incomplete but succeeds in exposing the commercialism of modern Bible production. Lori Anne Ferrell. The Bible and the People. New Haven ...

The Murderous History of Bible Translations by Harry Freedman reveals the fraught story of the famous text. By Matthew adams In 1411, the then archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Arundel, wrote to Pope ...

In the Great Hall of Glen Eyrie Castle visitors listened to the the tale of a 12-year-old boy who made one of history’s greatest archeological finds while searching for a goat.The boy’s 1947 discovery ...