It has often been said that there is little more to the ethics of the Hebrew Scriptures than doing whatever God commands you to do: If you have instruction directly from God himself or from a prophet, ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

The Bible is the world’s most influential book. But books, like people, can be influential because of what they say, or because of what they are thought to have said. With a book as huge as the Bible, ...

There are many contradictions within the Torah (the 5 Books of Moses), the Hebrew Bible and the Talmudic literature. In the continuation, I will give only one example of contradiction – of what in my ...

CORRECTION: A number of changes were made in this article according to AFP corrections to its story, the main change being that this scroll is not the earliest copy of Old Testament Bible scripture.

Michael Langlois does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

The oldest most complete Hebrew Bible has been bought at Sotheby's New York for $38.1m (£30.6m), becoming the most valuable manuscript sold at auction. The Codex Sassoon is thought to have been ...

A 700-year-old Hebrew Bible from medieval Spain is expected to sell for between $5 million and $7 million at auction next month. The Shem Tov Bible is a 768-page illustrated text written on parchment ...

An extremely fragile, ancient Hebrew scroll has been digitally unwrapped for the first time, revealing the earliest copy of Old Testament Bible scripture since the Dead Sea Scrolls, researchers said ...