The difficultiesof translating the Hebrew Bible begin with the first word of Genesis. The King James Bible of 1611 translates Genesis 1:1 as “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.” ...

Michael Peppard begins his new book, How Catholics Encounter the Bible, with something other than a passage from sacred Scripture. He offers instead an image of Michelangelo’s “Pietà,” the ...

ST. LOUIS — The image glows 30 feet away. Up close, its gold embellishment is meant to awe, and reflect, an onlooker. Using techniques hundreds of years old, a handmade Bible brings an ancient ...

Michael Stevens and Nicolas Fredrickson are good friends who meet weekly for Bible study. While they liked studying the contents of the Bible, they were less than impressed with the design and ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The massive Museum of the Bible, scheduled to open Friday in Washington, has three main exhibit floors, lecture and meeting space, restaurants and a rooftop garden, a ballroom and a ...

“Ecce Homo: Behold the Man,” an expansive new exhibition at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., explores how artists have interpreted the Passion of Christ over the past five centuries. The ...

Soon after the Meadows Museum opened its doors in Dallas in 1967, 44 of the works in its collection were exposed as forgeries. The paintings—donated by oilman Algur H. Meadows—included works ...

With the release of the movie Noah a couple of weeks away, the waters of controversy are already rising fast. I've seen the movie's final cut, and director Darren Aronofsky's re-envisioning of the ...