William Tyndale’s translation, published in 1526, was based on a then-radical idea: Anyone should be able to read the Bible in their own language.
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When government officials hold prayer services, quote scripture and engage in religious proselytizing at the workplace, is it religious freedom – or an old-fashioned First Amendment violation?
‘Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon.
What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.
A historian of artistic censorship sees chilling similarities to 19th-century anti-obscenity crusades.
The Bible remains the most important collection of books in Western civilisation. Regardless of our religious beliefs, it has shaped all of us. But who wrote it? The answer is complicated.
The ‘Shepherd of Hermas’ has been accused of being pedantic, even boring. In the first few centuries of Christianity, though, it was a hit.
Those who exclude any groups of people from God’s kingdom choose to ignore the teaching of Jesus.
Simchat Torah is about more than beginning to read the Torah all over again. It’s about the need to reexamine what we think we know, over and over again.
Faith can inform opinions about abortion on both sides of the political debate, but the Bible itself says nothing directly about the topic, a biblical scholar explains.
Trump recently suggested that a vote for Biden would hurt God. Religion scholars explain what, in Christian theology, it would take to injure the creator.
By practising double standards, Conservative Christians are missing the point of the scriptures.
The growing number of self-taught, right-wing experts on the Constitution believe not only in the rights of white people, but have a comprehensive – if not comprehensible – view of the Constitution.
The curious case of Bible #1, and how much we actually know about it.
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Professor of Social Sciences, Edge Hill University
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Docent in New Testament, Lund University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Westmont College
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Advising Fellow and Lecturer, University of Virginia
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Professor Emeritus of Government, Wesleyan University
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Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
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Danforth Chair in the Humanities, Saint Louis University
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Associate Professor of Biblical & Theological Studies, Fresno Pacific University
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Emeritus Professor in the History of Religious Thought, The University of Queensland
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Senior Professor of Biblical Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal
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Professor of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT)
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Professor Emerita of Christian Origins and Second Temple Judaism, and Honorary Professor of the Australian Catholic University, King's College London; Australian Catholic University
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Associate Professor of Christianity, University of Denver
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President, Dickinson College
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Professor of History, Missouri University of Science and Technology