The goal is to rewind the clock as far as possible toward the time when the various biblical texts attained their canonical form, around the start of the Common Era. The text of the Hebrew Bible ...

Dating to the year 700 CE, the Afghan Liturgical Quire is on view at the Jewish Theological Seminary Library's exhibit, ...

But the vast majority of texts from Christianity’s earliest centuries were written on papyrus, the paper of the ancient world. Conservator Emma Nichols examines a Hebrew text at the Cambridge ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses ...