According to a Gallup poll taken last month, 40% of Americans believe that the Bible is the literal record of words spoken by God. A new crop of books from Yale University Press shows why this belief ...

Answer: Let me begin by saying there are those who believe God simply spoke to ancient writers who transcribed verbatim what they heard. Interestingly, most who hold this view seem to prefer the King ...

Why was the Hebrew Bible written? In Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins (Cambridge, Oct. 19), Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University Jacob L. Wright offers ...

When the printing press was invented nearly 600 years ago, it put an end to centuries of hand-written manuscripts in which scribes, mostly in monasteries, tediously wrote and illustrated sacred texts, ...

When the Bible was written has long been a point of debate among scholars. Researchers from Tel Aviv University say that they have compelling evidence the Old Testament was scribed sooner rather than ...

For a text commonly thought of as foundational, it can feel odd to think that there was a time when it didn’t really exist. The Bible, though, has a birthday, and no one knows quite when it is. On ...

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NEWS ANALYSIS: The debate over how God reveals himself was a central part of Vatican II and continues to nourish the Church. A Bible handwritten in Latin, on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, ...