Was the Bible the world's first Wikipedia entry? Shibboleth, our popular anonymous biblical critic, wades in with his answer to a question that has been dividing opinion on Will & Testament. Let me ...

Bart Ehrman's book, Misquoting Jesus, defends something like that claim. It's not exactly an original idea, but it is a novel repackaging of an old one -- namely, that the authors of the Bible, some ...

Rap Genius, a website that allows the public to critique and interact with "thousands of canonical rap songs," has added the entire King James Bible to its expansive database. At least one biblical ...

My kids aren’t playing Pokémon Go yet, but the older one had heard enough about it that he started reading up about it. When I looked at the screen after he’d been on the computer, I encountered this ...

For Larry Sanger, finding faith in God was a surprise, even to him. "If you did not know this change, and if you knew me before 2020, this might be a surprise," Sanger, who co-founded Wikipedia, wrote ...

Origins and historical context The origins of the Bible lie in the ancient Near East, in the cradle of human civilization, where writing systems first developed. The biblical texts were primarily ...

The Lion Gate at the ruins of Hattusa, the capital of the Hittite Empire. Credit: Wikipedia Commons, Carole Raddato, CC-BY-SA 2.0 The Bible mentions the Hittites numerous times. For many, many years ...