Bible Versions and Translations
Oct 7
The Bible in Living Color
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 […]
Aug 18
What’s Missing from Codex Sinaiticus, the Oldest New Testament?
By: BAS Staff
Compare differences in the Biblical text between the King James Version and Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest New Testament.
Aug 6
The Masoretic Text and the Dead Sea Scrolls
By: BAS Staff
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 of the divide weigh in on this issue.
Jul 9
The “Original” Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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?
Jul 5
Dating the Oldest New Testament Christian Manuscripts
By: Marek Dospěl
The New Testament that we read today in many different translations is not based on one single manuscript of the original Greek text. Why? There […]
Jul 2
The Sayings of Jesus in the Gospel of Thomas
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.
Jul 2
The Gospel of Thomas’s 114 Sayings of Jesus
By: BAS Staff
Read the 114 sayings of Jesus from the Gospel of Thomas as translated by Stephen J. Patterson and James M. Robinson.
Jun 24
Identifying Biblical Authors with Statistical Analysis
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 […]
May 26
Comparing Ancient Biblical Manuscripts
By: BAS Staff
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 ultimately considered the most authoritative text in Judaism. Its loss was an enormous blow to Jewish scholarship. However, another complete codex still exists: The Leningrad Codex. How does it compare to its more distinguished cousin?
May 18
Paul’s Lost Words Recovered
An international research team led by Professor Garrick Allen at the University of Glasgow recently conducted a major manuscript recovery project of Codex H. This […]
