From Hebrew Scrolls to Greek Codices: How the Bible Reached Us
The Bible did not arrive in history as a single bound volume. Its books were...
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Dating the Gospels: What the Evidence Suggests
The four Gospels are formally anonymous works whose dates must be reconstructed from internal clues...
The Masoretic Text: How Jewish Scribes Preserved the Hebrew Bible
Between roughly AD 500 and 1000, families of Jewish scholars known as the Masoretes developed...
How the New Testament Canon Was Recognized
No church council invented the New Testament. The twenty-seven books were read, copied, and used...
Why Old Testaments Differ: The Deuterocanon Question
Open a Catholic Bible and a Protestant Bible side by side and the Old Testaments...