James’ interest in demonology came about after the North Berwick witch trials in 1590, and as such, his text pulls from the Bible, the confessions of alleged witches, and past cases from history. In ...
The reputation of this Bible is the central, most fascinating, element in a larger history, that of literary ideas of the Bible as they have come into and developed in English culture; and the first ...
English Bible translations have a rich and varied history of more than a millennium. (See List of English Bible translations.) Textual variants in the New Testament include errors, omissions, ...
If you thought that John Barton’s monumental History of the Bible would be a hard act to follow, here is certainly a worthy companion (Feature, 22 November). Bruce Gordon, Titus Street Professor of ...
A reader favors teaching the Bible in public schools since it enhances students’ grasp of literature, art, law and history.
Forcing all facts into a pre-determined narrative denies how complicated history is, not to mention how complicated people are. The biblical account is not an ideology built on partial truth but an ...
In Mainz, Germany, in the mid-1450s, Johann Gutenberg and his partner Johann Fust published more than 150 large-format copies of the Bible in Latin. This is the book known today as the Gutenberg Bible ...
The descendants of Ebenezer Clough, the master brick layer who built the Old North Church in 1723, will present the church ...
At a meeting of the Texas State Board of Education on Monday, educators, parents, and religious advocates offered testimony ...
Our children and communities are starved for the biblical principles that once made our society the greatest in the world.