"Canon" is a fighting word nowadays, a label that is applied by special pleaders in secular circles to designate the books that deserve our reverence and to distinguish them from the books that ...

At first, Christian Enlightenment biblical criticism was much more enthusiastic in debunking the historical authenticity of Hebrew books in the Old Testament than Greek ones in the New. But the tide ...

Archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and ... texts in the world—they include the second-oldest known surviving manuscripts of works later included in the Hebrew Bible canon.

The "Codex Sassoon," an ancient Hebrew Bible written in the late 9th or early 10th century, was purchased Wednesday at Sotheby’s in New York City for $38.1 million. For the record: The price for ...

The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis.The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth ...

The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible will go on display in London next week before an auction in May where it could sell for up to $50 million, Sotheby's said on Wednesday.

A near-complete copy of the Hebrew Bible from around 1,000 years ago — missing only a few pages — will go up for auction in New York in May. The price tag? An estimated $30 to $50 million ...

The world's oldest and most complete Hebrew Bible sold for $38.1 million on Wednesday, Sotheby’s said, one of the highest prices ever for a book or document sold at auction.