Topic
Bible & Manuscripts
How the text came to us, copy by copy and language by language.
Articles
Bible & Manuscripts
340,000 threads: how connected is the Bible, really?
The Interwoven Word, part one. Where the famous cross-reference numbers come from, what counts as a connection, and what the web of links can and can’t tell us.
Bible & Manuscripts
The oldest Bible verse ever found
Two tiny silver scrolls from a Jerusalem tomb carry the priestly blessing of Numbers 6, centuries older than the Dead Sea Scrolls.
Bible & Manuscripts
The Great Isaiah Scroll and a thousand years of copying
Found in 1947, the scroll let scholars compare Isaiah across a millennium of hand copying. What did they find?
Dispatches, video and claims
- Claims Examined
Isaiah 53 was written after Jesus to fit him.
Could Christians have written the “suffering servant” passage after the fact? A scroll from the Dead Sea answers that.
- Claims Examined
The Gospels were written centuries after Jesus.
When were Matthew, Mark, Luke and John really written? The evidence points to the first century, and possibly earlier than most think.