Researchers used phylogenetic tools to trace how ancient biblical manuscripts evolved, revealing rare variants and insights.

In a room of St. Catherine’s Monastery in the mountains of Sinai, a chance discovery in 1975 forever changed the study of ...

Big Spring, Texas / / July 23, 2025 / Wordsmith World Key Takeaways Reading the New Testament requires recognizing the ...

Is it possible to know the real Jesus, the man behind the stories?” This question has galvanized centuries of debate, ...

He sought Stewart’s advice, early on, as the CSNTM began efforts to digitize 5,500 ancient copies of the Greek New Testament manuscripts, and along the way discovered 75 previously unknown to ...

By contrast, thousands of New Testament manuscripts survived the centuries. Two key collections dated at around 350 contain the entire New Testament (Codex Sinaiticus) or most of it (Codex Vaticanus).

This is the first of an occasional series to update J.K. Elliott, "A Bibliography of Greek New Testament Manuscripts" Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000) (= SNTS Monograph ...

February 27, 2020 Presenter: Dieter T. Roth 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 ...

You could have bought an ancient religious text online for less than $100. That text was an ancient Greek papyrus fragment of the Gospel of John (likely John 1:50-51), and was listed on eBay with ...

It was John I, 50-51, from the New Testament. And searches in a database of known New Testament manuscripts showed no such artifact — this was a “new” find for the scholarly community.