WHEN SENNACHERIB, King of Assyria, sent his army to the kingdom of Judah in 701BC, and had it destroy the city of Lachish, 43km south-west of Jerusalem, he was doing his bit for science as well. As ...

In southern Turkey, an extensive new trail network spirits trekkers to Pisidia, home to many lost treasures and a true crossroads of civilizations The city gate of Ariassos, one of several ancient ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...

Pew Research reveals a paradox: while interest in Christianity may be rising, only 22% of Americans read the Bible weekly and 61% rarely or never read it, often stumped by its unfamiliar genealogies ...

Some of the most widely recognized Old Testament stories are reimagined in “The Faithful” through the perspectives of the ...

David Kling is interested in how interpretations of the Bible have influenced history and how historical context has shaped interpretations of the Bible. He selects eight key biblical passages that ...

Time travel in this animation through the history of the Bible. Made with clay, wire, and recycled paper, the characters come to life in frame-by-frame motion. A version of this story appears in the ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...

‘In truth,” writes John Barton at the beginning of “A History of the Bible,” “there are no versions of either Christianity or Judaism that correspond point for point to the contents of the Bible, ...

A new book is addressing the age old question about whether people of African descent were present in biblical history. “The Bible is Black History” explores DNA evidence and the work of historians ...