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...
Old Testament
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...
Why Old Testaments Differ: The Deuterocanon Question
Open a Catholic Bible and a Protestant Bible side by side and the Old Testaments...
The Divine Name: How YHWH Was Written and Read
The personal name of God appears more than 6,800 times in the Hebrew Bible, written...
Who Wrote the Pentateuch? A Survey of the Evidence
Jewish and Christian tradition names Moses as the author of the Torah, yet the five...
The Septuagint: Why the Greek Old Testament Matters
Beginning in the third century BC, Jewish translators in Alexandria rendered the Hebrew Scriptures into...