Before the 2nd century, most Palestian Jews preferred a canon loosely similar to the Protestant OT; however, the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible ...

The following are the most important versions or translations of the Bible. 1. Septuagint. The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between ...

The Decalogue, which most people mistakenly call “The Ten Commandments,” is contained in the fifth Exodus biblical portion, Yitro, which Moses repeats with many changes in the fifth chapter of ...

A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...

Republicans in the Texas Senate introduced a bill that would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools ...

As a religion scholar, however, I believe one of the greatest loves in the Bible is a story of friendship: the intense ...

What does the Bible reveal about the origin of the Etruscans? Can it help solve the ancient debate about where they came from?

Republican Texas lawmakers are renewing a push to infuse a greater religious influence in the state's public schools with a ...

Bills introduced by Republicans in the Texas Senate would require the Ten Commandments to be displayed in public schools and allow for schools to carve out time for students to read the Bible, in the ...

The English We Speak is your chance to catch up on the very latest English words and phrases. In under 3 minutes, we help you stay ahead of the pack by giving you 'must have' phrases that you can ...

David Bentley Hart is an Eastern Orthodox theologian who has made waves in his own sphere through his radical atavism (he refers often to the early Church fathers’ concept of the divine), his sympathy ...

Seth Poppel, a lifelong collector, is the media’s go-to guy for yearbooks of the stars—from Patti Smith (“Class Clown”) to Ruth Bader Ginsburg (“twirler”) to Leonardo DiCaprio (“Most ...