A Bay City pastor is teaching congregants and visitors about the historic roots of Christianity through a museum featuring ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

This article argues that narratives about the loss and (potential) recovery of biblical texts can reveal a previously neglected genre of “biblical theology” in premodern Jewish sources—a religious ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

For the next several months, some of the oldest religious texts in history will be on display in D.C. at the Museum of the Bible.

Why was the Hebrew Bible written? In Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins (Cambridge Univ., out now), Jacob L. Wright, Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University, ...

Rescued from the dusty interior of the Qumran Caves in 1947, the Dead Sea Scrolls contain the oldest manuscripts of the Old Testament and are a crucial piece of Biblical history that dates back to the ...

‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except one that is looked upon by an antiquarian curiosity-seeker.” Things haven’t worked ...

In the Great Hall of Glen Eyrie Castle visitors listened to the the tale of a 12-year-old boy who made one of history’s greatest archeological finds while searching for a goat.The boy’s 1947 discovery ...

(RNS) — State officials in the South have recently reignited debates over teaching religion in public schools, with Oklahoma’s superintendent of schools issuing a mandate for schools to teach the ...

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history.