The Passover story has come to function as a powerful narrative of persecution and liberation for Jewish people.

Were the Hittites of the Bible the same as those of the Hittite Empire? While this is a common assumption, what do the facts ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill continues his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, focusing on Holy ...

Walter Elwell, a Bible and theology professor at Wheaton College for 28 years, died at age 87 in March, his family said.

According to the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament (which are slightly ... He said in an email that large numbers of Egyptian pottery fragments had been discovered alongside Greek pottery ...

the Greek-speaking Jews preferred the larger canon found in the Greek Septuagint Bible - a 2nd-century B.C. Greek translation of the Hebrew Scripture. It was the "Bible" for the Greek-speaking Jews.

A 3-year-old girl in Israel discovered a 3,800-year-old Canaanite scarab seal at a biblical site linked to the battle of ...

Here is my question for you. Many people like myself have carried our Bibles to church since we childhood. But answer this: ...

The word Israel in Hebrew is יִשְׂרָאֵל.  It is formed from its root which has a meaning which most scholars think conveys ...

The following are the most important versions or translations of the Bible. 1. Septuagint. The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between ...

In the New Testament, God as the “Rock” is further developed, representing the person of Jesus Christ and the foundation of ...