My friend Father Michael Azar, a Greek Orthodox priest and scholar, calls the Book of Revelation the most misunderstood book in the New Testament. “It is a source of joy,” he told me. “At Patmos, St.

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The Museum of the Bible will soon host fragments of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other ancient artifacts in Washington, D.C. In partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority, the museum will display ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine instead of to the west.

Author Michael Isaiah invites readers into a deeply moving exploration of grief with his debut book, Lamentations . This poetic work captures the heavy toll of sorrow as loyalty between friends is ...

Terms like diversity and inclusivity and the use of gender-neutral pronouns may be fighting words in today’s culture wars, but a handful of religion publishers with forthcoming Bible-centered books ...

Though believers say that the prophet Moses, Paul the Apostle, and God Himself are the main authors who wrote the Bible, the historical evidence is more complicated. Given its immense reach and ...

Some texts were too mystical. Others too politically dangerous. And some simply gave voice to people the Church would rather have silenced. These are the books that didn’t make it into the Bible.

When the Sinaitic Covenant was renewed to the hosts of Israel, poised in the plains of Moab for the conquest of Canaan, the ancient promises of blessing were repeated; but so too were the curses that ...

Challenges and bans to books in public libraries and schools in the U.S. have steeply increased since 2022. What is behind this increase? And what do Stanford faculty have to say about it? Although ...