Before there was a New Testament, the Bible of the first Christians (the writers of the New Testament and the early Church) was a Greek translation of the Old Testament. The general term used to ...

New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture. The study by Cambridge University researchers suggests that, ...

Tiny fragments of the Minor Prophets in Greek show that scribes adapted texts in similar ways to our contemporary versions. Israeli researchers and archaeologists unveiled this week several ...

The museum determined that the handwritten manuscript, which is more than a thousand years old, had been looted from the monastery during World War I. By Jane Arraf The Museum of the Bible in ...

Several Greek versions of the Purim story survive, along with the biblical text we read today. Esther presents us with an unusual opportunity to study the early growth and interpretation of a biblical ...