Q: What were some clues that led biblical scholars to question this belief? Coogan: The view that Moses had personally written down the first five books of the Bible was virtually unchallenged ...

Imagine, then, how precious centuries-old manuscripts are, those like the Archimedes palimpsest that were hand-written on parchment ... manuscripts as personal date-books or registers of the ...

The books of the Bible were very likely written in the cursive style of writing. The cursive (or "running hand") style joins the letters of a word together as when we write today. In addition ...

"On the one hand, because we were able to date it to the 4th to 5th century ... an apocryphal book that was not included in the Bible. The gospel offers details about Jesus' life as a child ...

It must be remembered that the Books of the Bible were written individually along with other religious books. Centuries later the Church compiled together the inspired Books under one cover to ...

While some books are written quickly over a small amount of time, the Bible takes over a century to compete. The Bible was written over a period of 1,500 years. Despite this vast time span and ...

A rare ancient manuscript that contains the oldest complete versions of two books ... were seen as a Christological foreshadowing of the death and resurrection of Christ.” The manuscript was ...

Two more copies in vellum lie in the underground vaults, next to 120,000 other books ... Gutenberg Bible has nearly 1,300 ...

In case of abuse, Abstract: A plain (peshat) interpretation of the Hebrew Bible may give us an impression that ... Although others suggest they were written at an early date, I disagree with this ...

Some Christians believe that the Bible accounts and stories have to be understood within the time that they were written. The authors of the biblical books had limited knowledge of science and the ...

- Two volumes of the over 500-year-old Gutenberg Bible are pictured in New York in April 1978. Johannes Gutenberg planned on ...