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, ...

From a disparate collection of writings that first emerged deep in the distant past Barton charts the gradual emergence of both the Old and the New Testaments and their evolution into what have become ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...

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 ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

Moss, the Edward Cadbury Chair of Theology at the University of Birmingham and regular commentator on CBS and other networks, is the author of God's Ghostwriters: Enslaved Christians and the Making of ...

Time travel in this animation through the history of the Bible. Made with clay, wire, and recycled paper, the characters come to life in frame-by-frame motion. A version of this story appears in the ...

Western missionaries collaborated with Chinese Christian scholars to translate the Word of God, leading to the achievement of the Union Version. One author once said that in the hearts of many ...