‘In truth,” writes John Barton at the beginning of “A History of the Bible,” “there are no versions of either Christianity or Judaism that correspond point for point to the contents of the Bible, ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Bruce Gordon shows how believers in every era have experienced their sacred book through all the human senses. In one of his many insightful essays, the late missiologist Andrew Walls asked whether ...

Why was the Hebrew Bible written? In Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins (Cambridge Univ., out now), Jacob L. Wright, Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University, ...

A History of the Bible: The Story of the World’s Most Influential Book, by John Barton. Viking. 640 pages. $35. The Lost Art of Scripture: Rescuing the Sacred Texts, by Karen Armstrong. Knopf. 624 ...

Anyone who visits Washington, D.C., expects to hit the museums. The National Air and Space Museum, the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History are considered ...

On October 6, in the year 1536, a pitiful figure was led from a dungeon in Vilvorde Castle near Brussels, Belgium. For nearly a year and a half, the man had suffered isolation in a dark, damp cell.

Western missionaries collaborated with Chinese Christian scholars to translate the Word of God, leading to the achievement of the Union Version. One author once said that in the hearts of many ...