According to some Jewish and Christian traditions, the seven days of Creation serve as the paradigm for the seven-part ...

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for "The ...

BYU Professor of Ancient Scripture John Hilton III gives a recorded Education Week speech about extending mercy to others and ourselves. (BYU Continuing Education) BYU ancient scripture professor John ...

House of David.” In this short phrase, inscribed on a basalt stele discovered in northern Israel in 1993, a long-standing ...

Early Christian Scripture and ancient codices draw collectors’ eyes to Paris The starring role in a June auction at Christie's will be taken by the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, the oldest known book in ...

One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours -- for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten ...

Oxford University said Wednesday it has launched an investigation into claims that one of its professors sold ancient Bible fragments to the controversial U.S. company of a billionaire evangelical ...

(RNS) — Bible societies are attempting to understand why, in a time when 90% of the world’s population has access to the Christian sacred text, relatively few consider it a foundation of their lives. ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — One of the oldest surviving biblical manuscripts, a nearly complete 1,100-year-old Hebrew Bible, could soon be yours — for a cool $30 million. The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, ...

A BYU professor and seven students joined a consortium of universities to excavate mosaics telling the stories of Jael and Deborah in the Galilean village of Huqoq. The Israelite commander Barak ...