Found 82 results Decoration from the title page to the New Testament. Illustration by Peter Gurry. Seven Common Misconceptions about the King James Bible The most widely read English Bible translation has sprouted a series of fictions about it. It’s time to prune them. Timothy Berg February 22, 2022 Level 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 Level Key figures from the “First-Century Mark” story. Illustration by Josh Koch. Wikipedia Taking Stock of the “First-Century Mark” Saga What can we learn from the overzealous excitement about the earliest known copy of our earliest Gospel? Elijah Hixson January 25, 2022 Level The Great Isaiah Scroll was among the first discovered. Today, it is housed at the Shrine of the Book in Jerusalem. Photo by Dennis Jarvis How Much Can the Most Famous Dead Sea Scroll Prove? The Great Isaiah Scroll is a crucial piece of the Old Testament puzzle, but it doesn’t give us the whole picture. Anthony Ferguson January 11, 2022 Level Detail at Luke 1 from the earliest datable copy of the complete Bible in English (14th c.). Egerton MS 618 (f. 35v) Five Decisions Every Bible Translator Must Make Knowing the hard decisions Bible translators face inspires gratitude for our Bibles and encourages us to read them. Peter J. Gurry December 20, 2021 Level Andover Hall at Harvard Divinity School. Photo credit The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife Fiasco Lessons from the headline-grabbing forgery that duped Harvard’s oldest endowed professor and enthralled the media Christian Askeland December 6, 2021 Level Illustration by Peter Gurry. Images from iStock The Most Important Bible Translation You’ve Never Heard of Used by the Apostles and the early church, the Greek translations of the Old Testament may be the most important ever made. William A. Ross November 15, 2021 Level 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 Level A 17th century icon of Enoch with Elijah in the Historic Museum in Sanok, Poland. Wikipedia The New Testament Use of Jewish Pseudepigrapha Why the New Testament authors sometimes drew on ancient literary works written under false names Daniel M. Gurtner November 11, 2021 Level Illustration by Peter Gurry. Images from Tyndale’s 1534 New Testament and iStock The Letter and the Spirit The evangelical scholar has no need to fear or to exclude the Holy Spirit when practicing textual criticism. Maurice A. Robinson November 11, 2021 Level Page 7 of 9 More articles