The “oldest map of the world in the world” on a Babylonian ... story today — essentially the Babylonian version of the biblical story of Noah’s ark. The ancient Babylonians believed ...

The Old Testament ... divisions of the Biblical books are of rather recent origin. The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates ...

Nearly 1,500 years after it was first written, a “hidden chapter” of Biblical ... of the Bible’s Matthew chapter 12, which was first transcribed as a part of the Old Syriac translations ...

Licensed by the Israeli government to sell antiquities, Khader Baidun visits a storage room below one of his family’s shops in Jerusalem’s Old ... Bible to life." Billing itself a “living ...

Biblical scholar ... of the Hebrew Bible and Its Components The sacred books that make up the anthology modern scholars call the Hebrew Bible - and Christians call the Old Testament - developed ...

In the following conversation with Gary Glassman, producer of "The Bible's ... that's good biblical Hebrew—but it says "by Yahweh and his Asherah." Asherah is the name of the old Canaanite ...

In current US politics, a “biblical” view of the Middle East ... times and places in a collection of books. The Hebrew Bible, or Old Testament, was finalised largely from the eighth century ...

A 2nd-century gate in the Old City's Muslim Quarter offers a glimpse into the capital's multilayered history -- and complex present ...