One of the world’s oldest biblical manuscripts just raked in some major dough. Dubbed the Codex Sassoon, the 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible sold for a staggering $38.1 million at Sotheby’s New York on ...
Donald Trump is now selling Bibles — at $59.99 a piece, a hefty price for a Bible — with the red-white-and-blue title God Bless the USA Bible, and including the pledge of allegiance and the ...
For those of us who are Christians there is something that has been lost since around the 2nd-3rd century after Jesus walked the earth. In Hebrew, the Holy Spirit is a feminine entity. Scholars are ...
The different books that make up the Christian holy scripture, the Bible. The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature ...
Receive emails about upcoming NOVA programs and related content, as well as featured reporting about current events through a science lens. William Dever: From the beginnings of what we call biblical ...
For 24 years, literary scholar Robert Alter has been working on a new translation of the Hebrew Bible and — "this may shock some of your listeners," he warns — he's been working on it by hand. "I'm ...
The historic text is named after the original owner, David Solomon Sassoon, who purchased the book in 1929. The Iraqi-Jewish businessman reportedly filled his London home with a number of Jewish ...
The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious'. The Christian Bible has ...