Breakthrough method analyzes word distribution to clarify origins of biblical passages — including disputed stories in ...

Susan C. Lim models these habits in her book Light of the World: How Knowing the History of the Bible Illuminates Our Faith. Lim, a Biola University history professor, tells the story of how ...

Throughout the stories in the Bible, numerous people are said to be "frightened," "afraid," and "gripped with fear" in the ...

Researchers say they have found a hidden version of a Bible passage that was left undiscovered for more than 1,500 years underneath a previously discovered section using ultraviolet lights.

It tells viewers to "embrace the darkness and fear the light." The spiritually dark directive contrasts with the Bible's words, "God is light, and in Him there is no darkness." Herod thought he ...

Let there be UV light. A “hidden chapter” of biblical ... used ultraviolet photography to analyze the Syriac translation of the Bible’s Matthew chapters 11 and 12 underneath three layers ...

Mickey Starling  [email protected] It comes as no surprise that many of our modern idioms have their roots in ...

(RNS) — Studying the Bible from a historic and critical lens is a longstanding project dating back to the 18th century. As new archaeological evidence comes to light, that project of better ...

In fact, one of the reasons for my interest in the Bible as a durable, useful library of ancient texts is the intense and ongoing effort of sifting and sorting that has resulted in the collection ...