Did you know that some churches contend that if someone in leadership has been found to have committed a scandalous sin, the ...
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The name most people have heard all their lives, spoken in churches, whispered in prayers, carved into stone across centuries, was never actually the name his mother used when she called him in from ...
The bible, the best-selling and most translated book in all of history, also the most influential of all time. Credit: NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Bible is the ...
The Story of the Greek Language Throughout Time. Historical scripts depicting the Greek language: (from top Left) Mycenaean Linear B, Cypriot syllabary, ancient Greek alphabet, Hellenistic Koine, ...
The multiplication of translations of the Bible has doubtless prompted more than one bewildered reader to rephrase the Preacher’s melancholy observation, “Of the making of many Bible versions there is ...
The beginning lines of the Gospel of John in koine Greek. Credit: Photo by author. Happy anniversary, Scripture scholars! Today marks 60 years since the promulgation of one of the Second Vatican ...
Archaeologists in Turkey recently unearthed a 1,500-year-old Christian floor mosaic in Urfa, a city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Abraham. The discovery was reported by Anadolu Agency ...
Archaeologists in Turkey recently unearthed a 1,500-year-old Christian floor mosaic in Urfa, a city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Abraham. The discovery was reported by Anadolu Agency ...
A 1,600-year-old estate connected to the ancient Samaritans – a group depicted in the Bible – has been uncovered in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...
When I was studying for ministry in seminary, I took a few courses on the kind of Greek that can be found in the New Testament. It’s called koine (meaning common) Greek, and it was the language used ...