When scholars traced the Bible’s earliest stories back through history, they found striking parallels in Egyptian mythology—creation tales, divine births, moral codes, and even elements of the Exodus ...

Films that take their stories from the Old or New Testament are filling screens big and small. To understand why, it helps to know Hollywood history. By Alissa Wilkinson In the beginning were the ...

A new film billed as the New Testament's "origin story" aims to make an impact as younger generations show an increasing interest in faith and the Bible. "I could not have looked two years ahead and ...

Do you believe in ghosts? That’s what prominent Roman lawyer and statesman Pliny the Younger asked his friend in a letter around A.D. 100. “I should very much like to know whether you think there are ...

As Bible sales surge, there is a new book about the Good Book for young readers. “Know the story of the Bible. We can’t know the parts if we don’t know the whole,” encourages Emily Stimpson Chapman, ...

It’s so often said that it’s become a cliché in modern politics: Israel has been the Jewish homeland for 3,000 years or more. Modern Israel, they say, is heir to the ancient kingdom of David and ...

A crop of new children’s storybook Bibles aims to reach progressive Christians who are turned off by traditional presentations of Scripture, offering messages focused on diversity, inclusion and ...

(RNS) — Author Emily Stimpson Chapman discusses the pressures of rewriting the Bible, serving as a bridge between young Catholics and Scripture, and her new sense of being a spiritual mother. (RNS) — ...

Editor’s Note: This article contains potentially triggering material, including discussions of war, health effects of atomic bombs, child death and more. In August 1945, the United States dropped ...

In the Beginning features episodes devoted to most of the major Bible stories of the Old Testament, including the stories of the Creation, Cain and Abel, Noah's Ark, Abraham and Isaac, Joseph, Moses, ...

Feminist biblical scholarship, once relegated to the sidelines, is now solidly mainstream. Each year, more books, podcasts, and documentaries emerge to challenge the traditional patriarchal readings ...

Joan Taylor has received funding from the Commonwealth scholarships and Fulbright schemes, the Wellcome Trust, Leverhulme and various academic societies. In terms of religious faith she is a Quaker.