Contemporary scholars seeking to understand the history of the Hebrew Bible’s text utilize a range of other sources, including ancient Greek and Syriac translations, quotations from rabbinic ...

But the vast majority of texts from Christianity’s earliest centuries were written on papyrus, the paper of the ancient world. Conservator Emma Nichols examines a Hebrew text at the Cambridge ...

Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the history of these ancient texts and their significance ... Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books ...

Far more ancient written Hebrew texts had been discovered, but only on scrolls, most famously the roughly 2,000-year-old Dead Sea Scrolls that are displayed prominently in Israel. The carbon ...

Oldest Recorded Solar Eclipse Occurred 3,200 Years Ago, Academicians Figure Out Using Biblical Texts A group of British researchers in 2017 announced the date of the earliest recorded solar eclipse by ...

A new study has revolutionized the understanding of ancient medicine by combining modern science with hands-on historical reenactments. Supported by ...

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have used a new digital reconstruction technique to resurrect one of the earliest known versions of the Old Testament from a Hebrew scroll that was burned ...