The alphabet and the ancient world

Between the Testaments

Sometimes called the ‘silent years’ in fact this was a time of important change

Dr Peter J Williams

Who carried the Epistles?

Dr Peter Head meets the trusted letter-carriers who delivered the New Testament epistles by hand

Dr Peter Head

Artefact in focus: The Cyrus Cylinder

This stone tablet takes us back to the last days of Babylon, and a series of events that was to have momentous consequences for Judah

Dr Kaspars Ozolins

Four Bibles that changed our world

These four extraordinary editions chart the fraught history of Bible translation, and made an indelible mark on Western culture

Dr Elijah Hixson & Timothy Berg

Bible toolkit: The strange case of Jannes and Jambres

Christopher Ash explains how Bible scholarship can help us make sense of tricky phrases

Christopher Ash

Following the Bible's paper trail

What is the physical evidence for the text of the New Testament and how far back does it actually go?

Dr Dirk Jongkind

Bible toolkit: Diving deeper

Christopher Ash looks at scholarship that can reveal hidden depths in familiar passages

Christopher Ash

Do the nativity accounts match up?

Dr Peter J Williams asks how we should approach differences in the narratives about Jesus's birth

Dr Peter J Williams

Learn the secrets of the Leningrad Codex

How Mediaeval scholars reproduced the text of the Bible with astonishing accuracy

Dr Kim Phillips

How scepticism became a bestseller

Prof Bart D Ehrman has sold millions of books questioning the reliability of the Bible, but his arguments are far from irrefutable

Dr Peter J Williams

Bible toolkit: Keep the faith

Christopher Ash shows how scholarship can help us better understand passages we struggle with

Reading the Psalms in Hebrew

Dr Peter J Williams discovers how the original language of the Psalter uses sounds and poetic devices to reinforce the meaning of the text

Dr Peter J Williams