She was there when Jesus was crucified, yet no one knows much about her. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing ...

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

‘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 ...

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 ...

The modern Bible is the product of translations and interpretations that span centuries. But a true understanding of its meaning should take into account its origins in Jewish culture, according to ...

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 ...

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 ...