Essex streets have many strange names that have often been inspired by history. One Essex street is named after someone who was executed nearby almost 500 years ago - but will be remembered for ...

Scopes “Monkey Trial” in Tennessee, where a teacher was prosecuted for teaching evolution, continues to influence debates on ...

A 1983 routine cleaning at Boerne High School in Texas yielded a rare and precious find: a thick, ornate Bible wrapped in cloth and written in low German. Now it will soon be seen online.

A curator at the National Library of Wales calls it "a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity".

Columnist: "I recommend that all of us renew our commitment to the Bible by reading and applying its teachings in our lives." ...

THE celebration of the tercentenary of the English authorised version of the Bible is an event of national importance, when everything connected with Holy Writ commands, if possible, more than ...

American history shows that people can express their patriotism in many languages — and they can just as easily express disloyalty in English.

Take a Cold Bath Lucy Wooding 2753 words Lower than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity by Diarmaid MacCulloch. Allen Lane, 660 pp., £35, September 2024, 978 0 241 40093 7 ...

Though, while its cultural influence is clear, the history of the Bible is much less so. Questions about who wrote the Bible, when, and why have fascinated and perplexed scholars for centuries.

The story is told in the Kebra Nagast, an Ethiopian history from the fourteenth century, not in Second Samuel. Gordon’s history is a hybrid sort of book: part story of Bible translations, editions and ...