The cross is one of the most prominent symbols of Christianity, and depictions of the crucified Christ are one of Christianity's most powerful iconographic themes. And yet, it is only recently that ...

Our knowledge of ancient literature comes to us through the hands of scribes. The works of Aristotle, Galen and Ptolemy survived only because generations of copyists reproduced them by hand. Subscribe ...

Wallace summarizes, “When a Christian work, written within a century of the completion of the New Testament, is published—a document that is the oldest text from the Sermon on the Mount, as well as ...

This manuscript is a papyrus, and there are only 68 papyri known, with fragments of the Greek text of the New Testament. It is extraordinarily well preserved, by far the finest and most intact papyrus ...

While you're scouring eBay for Christmas presents, there are scholars and collectors out there who are keeping an eye out for one-of-a-kind finds. Back in January, Geoffrey Smith, an assistant ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A rare Greek manuscript of the New Testament that was being held in Chicago is heading back to Greece. Leaders at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago returned the manuscript to ...

It was an “act of ecumenism” and a true gift—since the giver could not receive anything of equal value in return. That’s how Archbishop Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, and ...

DALLAS — Armed with high-tech cameras and computers, Daniel B. Wallace travels around the world to photograph New Testament manuscripts that are many centuries old. The pages are often fragile, and ...

(RNS) — The return follows an investigation the museum is conducting on the origins of more than 3,000 items in its collection. (RNS) — One year after the Green family — owners of the craft store ...