After losing his health, wealth and children in inexplicable tragedies, the righteous and devout man Job questions God as to what he must have done to deserve such a heavy Read more…
Bible Versions and Translations
Sort through the myriad of Bible translations and editions available today according to content, text, style and religious orientation.
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Job Challenges God by Suing: God Responds
• 08/15/2017
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What’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament?
• 06/05/2017
Compare differences in the Biblical text between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest New Testament. Read more…
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The Sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas
• 06/04/2017
New Testament scholar Simon Gathercole examines what the sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas reveal about the early Christian world in which they were written. Read more…
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The Gospel of Thomas’s 114 Sayings of Jesus
• 06/04/2017
Read the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson. Read more…
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James or Jacob in the Bible?
• 04/27/2017
How did the Jewish name Ya’akov, properly translated as Jacob, become James in English versions of the Bible? Read more…
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The Masoretic Text and the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 01/20/2017
Do insights from the Dead Sea Scrolls add to the Masoretic text, and if so, should the original Hebrew Bible text be modified based this information? Scholars from both sides Read more…
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Errors in the Masoretes’ “Original” Hebrew Manuscripts of the Bible?
• 01/07/2017
The Hebrew Bible today differs from the Bible manuscripts of the first millennium B.C.E. How do we identify alterations? Learn why critical editions of the Bible are essential. Read more…
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Tischendorf on Trial for Removing Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament
• 09/23/2015
Constantine Tischendorf’s chance finding of Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest New Testament manuscript, at St. Catherine’s Monastery in the Sinai—and his later removal of the manuscript—made him both famous and infamous. Read more…
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The “Original” Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
• 09/15/2015
For centuries, Bible scholars examined two ancient texts to elucidate the original language of the Bible: the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint. Hebrew University of Jerusalem scholar Emanuel Tov suggests Read more…
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Piety Preserved
• 12/23/2013
Many manuscripts—literally, documents written by hand—from medieval Europe were supplemented with decorations that ranged from ornate initials and borders to illuminations that dominated the page. For a largely illiterate population, Read more…
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A Sefer Torah in the Bologna Library May Be the Oldest Known Torah Scroll
• 05/30/2013
Italian scholar Mauro Perani dated a Sefer Torah scroll from the University of Bologna Library to the 12–13th centuries C.E., making the manuscript the world’s oldest extant Sefer Torah Read more…
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Can Abecedaries Be Used to Date the Book of Psalms?
• 07/13/2012
Mitchell First compares ancient abecedaries to the Book of Psalms for a new perspective on letter order in the ancient Hebrew alphabet. Read more…
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Searching for the Better Text
• 07/06/2012
Isaiah’s vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible: “The wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the Read more…
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Searching for the Better Text
• 06/21/2012
Isaiah’s vision of universal peace is one of the best-known passages in the Hebrew Bible. Does this beloved image of the Peaceable Kingdom contain a mistranslation? Read more…
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Babylonian Talmud Translated into Arabic
• 05/17/2012
After a controversial six-year-long translation project, a Jordanian think tank based in Amman published an Arabic translation of the Babylonian Talmud. After gaining enthusiastic responses to the project from the Read more…
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Why Is the Newest Bible Translation in Modern Hebrew?
• 04/17/2012
Reches Educational Projects in Israel recently published its modern Hebrew translation of the Bible. While some believe this newest Bible translation meets the linguistic reality of modern Israeli society, others Read more…
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Reflecting on the Power of the Codex
• 09/06/2011
Sometime in the first few centuries C.E., the first bound books—termed codices—revolutionized the way people read the words of prophets, kings, scribes and thinkers.* Unlike lengthy, cumbersome ancient scrolls, which Read more…
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Tracing the History of the Bible One Book at a Time
• 08/12/2011
Since 1958, some of the world’s best Bible scholars have worked at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Bible Project to come up with an authoritative critical edition of the 24 Read more…
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Comparing Ancient Biblical Manuscripts
• 07/22/2011
Until it was damaged and partially lost, the Aleppo Codex was considered to be the “crown” of ancient Biblical manuscripts, and was the version of the Hebrew Bible that was Read more…
