The only reason Jefferson could call certain truths 'self-evident' is that he was living in a world shaped by Judeo-Christian ...

There are about 40 authors, but we only know the names of 35 of them. Not only that, but some authors may have had their ...

But with the Bible, the stakes go up. When we say that something is “in the Bible,” what do we mean? Is it the exact ...

Other significant languages were Greek, the language of the Septuagint – a pre-Christian translation of the Hebrew Bible, the original language of the New Testament and the lingua franca of ...

The bible, the best-selling and most translated book in all of history, also the most influential of all time. Credit: NYC Wanderer (Kevin Eng) / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 2.0 The Bible is the ...

The Geneva Bible changed that to "Church," and this was also used in the King James Version, which established the current use of the word. Even in the New Testament the Greek word ekklesia is used in ...

By 325, only a couple books remained in question, and even those weren’t debated at the council. As we’ve noted, the Septuagint, or the Old Testament canon, had been established a century or more ...

The comparison of the survival of the diaspora, which survived the dire fate predicted by the Septuagint in Deut. 25:28, to survivors whom Zech. 3:2 applied the term “ a brand plucked from the ...

Septuagint (3rd Century BCE) The Septuagint is the earliest known Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible, translated by Jewish scholars in Alexandria, Egypt. It was primarily created for Jews living ...

Most people know that St. Jerome — whose feast day the Catholic Church celebrates on Sept. 30 — is famous for translating the entire Bible into Latin in the fourth century A.D., creating a ...

Topics The Hexaglot Bible The Septuagint Syriac Of The New Testament Vulgate Latin The Holy Scriptures Of The Old And New Testaments English German French Versions Arranged In Parallel Columns By ...