From a cheeky slingshot to Paul's letters and information on King Nebuchadnezzar, new research is offering insight into some ...

The miniseries left THR's TV critic wondering who the intended audience was for this "fractious and overwrought" adaptation of the most well-known and popular book in the history of humanity. By Jane ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...

A few characters on the side of a 3,000-year-old earthenware jug dating back to the time of King David have stumped archaeologists until now -- and a fresh translation may have profound ramifications ...

Through its influence on the birth of both Christianity and Islam, the Hebrew Bible has changed history (for better and for worse). You need not be a learned scholar to realize that the Hebrew Bible ...

One of the most attractive and productive approaches in biblical studies in recent years goes by the German term Wirkungsgeschichte, that is, the history of the Bible’s influence or effects. The books ...