Recent readings on inscriptions written in an ancient alphabet, the Proto-Sinaitic Script, may well provide proof of the ...

The Bible contains a story of how a young Jewish woman named Esther became the Queen of Persia and saved the Jews from an ...

In one of the best Hadith collections, Saheeh Muslim in particular, there are a number of hadiths which some scholars said were weak or problematic, including Abu’l-Hasan ad-Daaraqtni, Abu ‘Ali ...

For centuries, the number 666 has stirred imaginations and inspired fear as the so-called number of the beast from the Book ...

Others like Gregory Nazianzen also excluded Esther from the Bible [JBC, p. 522]. Jerome while favoring the shorter canon, several times in his writings cited Books from the larger canon as Scripture.

The Bible is artful — a “Great Code of Art”, Blake insisted. The word “code” is meant in the sense of “cipher”, the scholar ...

Jesus, the writers of the New Testament, and observant Jews never say the name of God. So why is saying it such a trend among ...

Foreign policy determined by bad theology is a terrible idea. A few weeks ago, Ted Cruz (R-Texas) invoked biblical support (where it was in the Bible, he wasn’t ...

How a Scientific Revolution is Rewriting Their Story is its starting point, specifically, determining where it was. He hopes ...

Christians at the Council of Nicaea settled the foundational question of Jesus' nature at the Council of Nicaea 1700 years ...

To those who feel nerves before attending a party or have to overcome a sense of anxiety before guests arrive, medieval ...