The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at the ...

The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition ...

And it must have been a wonderful book, but all we have is a kind of learned footnote. Q: If it's an anthology, what ties the Bible together? Coogan: More than anything else, the Bible is an ...

His article "The Past as Destiny" will appear in the October issue of the Harvard Theological Review The Origins of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology ...

‘One hundred years from my day,” Voltaire is supposed to have remarked, “there will not be a Bible on earth except ... derived from the Greek biblia, “books”—to its present status ...

The series of definitive chart books spans all the Official Charts from the 1950s to the present day. Official Charts is proud to present a definitive series of UK chart books, designed to ...

The reproduction by any means of the text of the King James Version is permitted to a maximum of five hundred (500) verses for liturgical and non-commercial educational use, provided that the verses ...

The King James Version of the Bible was first published in 1611. Its literary brilliance is well known and ... Cambridge has reissued that edition as part of its digital reprint programme for classic ...

Classic rock was sometimes seen as the devil’s music but it knew how to get biblical. For example, Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway ...

Two new books by psychologists explore the roots of group identity, arguing that it is natural and potentially useful — even in polarized times. By Jennifer Szalai A biography of the singer ...

In a new exhibit opening Tuesday, the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C. has unveiled what it says is the oldest Jewish book ever discovered. According to the museum’s dramatic claim ...

By J. D. Biersdorfer Our critic on new books by Stephanie Wrobel, Lawrence Robbins and Hildur Knútsdóttir. By Sarah Lyall A graphic tribute to the British novelist who documented the blight ...