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Illustration by Peter Gurry.

How Bible Software Solves Differences in Versification for You


Software developers have to account for different versification in how Bible data is both stored and presented.

Rick Brannan

January 10, 2023

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Solomon Schechter

Solomon Schechter studying the thousands of manuscripts discovered in the Cairo Geniza around 1898. Image reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library. Source

Four Ways Scholars Date Early Hebrew Bible Manuscripts


Scholars use multiple methods to date the earliest copies of the Old Testament. At their best, they yield a range of fifty years.

Drew Longacre

November 8, 2022

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Mark 16

A miniature of Mark from GA 77 (11th c.). Illustration by Peter Gurry. Photo from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

A Case against the Longer Ending of Mark


An argument that Mark 16:9–20 is not original and so not inspired Scripture

Peter M. Head

June 14, 2022

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Ending of Mark

A miniature of Mark from GA 77 (11th c.). Illustration by Peter Gurry. Photo from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek

A Case for the Longer Ending of Mark


An argument for Mark 16:9–20 as the original, canonical ending, written by Mark but added by his colleagues.

James Snapp Jr.

June 1, 2022

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Rembrandt’s Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Rembrandt’s “Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery” (1644). Wikimedia

Does the Woman Caught in Adultery Belong in the Bible?


Jesus’ famous act of mercy is missing in many manuscripts, raising questions about its place in the Bible.

Tommy Wasserman

February 8, 2022

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Stylized image of the Council of Nicaea

Illustration by Josh Koch from a fresco of the Council of Nicaea in the Basilica of St. Nicholas.

Did Nicaea Really Create the Bible?


Debunking the popular myth that a Roman emperor and a fourth-century church council decided the canon

John D. Meade

November 11, 2021

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Painting of Christ’s resurrection with Hebrew text overlaid

Illustration by Josh Koch.

Recovering the Resurrection in Isaiah 53: Textual Criticism and Easter


The Bible’s textual integrity is better appreciated by patient study than by sensational discoveries

John D. Meade

August 4, 2021

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