A BIBLE SCROLL – GOING BACK A THOUSAND YEARS
People often wonder about the reliability of the Biblical texts. After all, they say, the Biblical manuscripts were hand copied for...
WHO ON EARTH WERE THE ESSENES?
Chances are you have not been lying awake at night wondering about the Essenes! Understandably so. Nevertheless they provide an important...
THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH: WHY SO MANY TRANSLATIONS?
Bible translation has been necessary almost from the beginning. The Old Testament (or Hebrew Bible) was written originally in Hebrew and...
THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH: THE KING JAMES VERSION
It is arguably the most influential book in the English language. It has formed much of our diction, our thought patterns and our ways of...
THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH: WILLIAM TYNDALE
As we have seen in previous blogs, the Bible was first written in Hebrew and Greek between about 1000 B.C. and 100 A.D. In 410 A.D. the...
THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH: JOHN WYCLIFFE
As I mentioned in my previous post, the Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew and the New Testament was originally written in...
THE BIBLE INTO ENGLISH
How did the Bible get into the English language? After all, the Bible was written long before the English language was invented. The Old...
THERE’S NOTHING DEAD ABOUT THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in eleven caves near the Dead Sea between 1947 and 1956 was a major archeological event. Biblical...
DO ORIGINAL BIBLE MANUSCRIPTS EXIST?
The question often is asked: Are there any original manuscripts of the Bible in existence? The brief answer is “no”. As far as we know...
"OH, THE WORLD, IT IS SO BEAUTIFUL"
It all happened several years ago when I was working in East Harlem in New York City. Located in the upper East Side of Manhattan,...
