AT THIS TIME of year, scores of millions of people go to church. Even sheep who have strayed from the Lord’s flock often find ...

A new Cambridge study reveals how the first Bible ever printed with a map, released in 1525 with the Holy Land accidentally reversed, ended up transforming far more than biblical illustration. The ...

The map of the Holy Land in Christopher Froschauer’s 1525 Old Testament has the Mediterranean to the east of Palestine ...

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.

Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside the infant Jesus. According to the ...

Five hundred years ago, a Bible accidentally printed with a backwards map of the Holy Land sparked a revolution in how people imagined geography, borders, and even nationhood. Despite the blunder, the ...

Published in Zürich in 1525, Lucas Cranach the Elder’s map came at a moment when the modern idea of nation-states was only ...

The titles "Old" and "New Testament" were used by St. Paul (2 Corinthians, 2:14). The term "testament," as applied to the two parts of the Bible, means: a covenant, agreement, pact. In the language of ...

In previous columns, I have shown how certain truths of the faith in the New Testament were prefigured and foreshadowed in the Old Testament. Here, I will focus on the Eucharist. There are a number of ...

JACK Shepherd, who starred in popular TV series Wycliffe, has sadly died at the age of 85. The actor’s family said Jack tragically passed away following a “short illness”. Please provide a valid email ...

The Borso D’Este Bible rarely goes on display. The 15th-century, two-volume illuminated manuscript filled with miniature paintings of gold and lapis lazuli is usually locked in a safe at the Gallerie ...