It is, from a marketing standpoint, a publishing miracle. The Bible remains one of the best selling books in the world -- more people have read it than any other text. It's been printed in every ...

Biblical material pervades the works of English literature. Bible stories have been retold, recast and reinterpreted. Biblical images have lent their resonance and biblical phrases their rhetorical ...

Debates over what constitutes the American literary canon—and whether Bible excerpts should be a part of it—erupted on ...

TUPELO – What is the Bible? Is it a narrative? A history? A manual for life? “There are several different ways to approach the Bible,” said the Rev. Chris McAlilly, pastor of Oxford University United ...

Essentials in Education (EIE), a non-profit educational organization that has been the U.S. leader in teaching the Bible academically in public schools has announced the release of their new ...

CHARLESTON -- School officials in Dorchester District 4 are considering an elective course in the Bible as literature for high school students. The class would approach the Bible from an academic, not ...

Since the U.S. Supreme Court banned the promotion of religion in public schools in 1963, the Bible has virtually disappeared from most American classrooms. But in recent years, as evangelical ...

When asked for my favorite book as a child, and even as a teen putting together her Facebook page for the first time, I always cited the Bible as my favorite book. Part of me defaulted to that simply ...

Jack Miles is the biographer of God in much the same way Edmund Morris was the biographer of Ronald Reagan. Morris’ speculative biography, “Dutch,” was notorious for its invented interior monologues.