Bible Versions and Translations

By: Noah Wiener

More than 200 Biblical texts written in Hebrew were discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. How do these ancient Biblical texts compare with the Masoretic Text and the Greek Septuagint in scholars’ search for the most authoritative text of the Hebrew Bible?

By: BAS Staff

Read the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson.

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

What is the best Bible translation? It’s a simple question, but the answer is far from straightforward. There are dozens of modern English translations and […]

By: BAS Staff

Among the most memorable accounts in the Gospels is that of Jesus’s raising of Lazarus from the dead in John 11. We learn little, however, […]

By: Jonathan Redding

The Book of Esther Word for Word Bible Comic series (Bristol, United Kingdom: Word for Word Bible Comics, 2024), i–ix + 84 pp. Acts of […]

By: BAS Staff

Compare differences in the Biblical text between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest New Testament.

By: Robin Ngo

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.

By: Nathan Steinmeyer

The Hebrew Bible is the product of centuries of oral and written transmission, combining numerous sources and multiple redactions. Although this has been a long-recognized […]

By: Marek Dospěl

Discover the fascinating history of Coptic, the final stage of the indigenous language of Egypt. Learn about its connection to ancient Egyptian and its significance in the Coptic Church.

By: BAS Staff

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.