The cross is one of the most prominent symbols of Christianity, and depictions of the crucified Christ are one of Christianity's most powerful iconographic themes. And yet, it is only recently that ...

Pope Benedict XVI expressed his gratitude and profound satisfaction upon receiving a papyrus containing one of the earliest known transcriptions of the New Testament. According to an L'Osservatore ...

Wallace summarizes, “When a Christian work, written within a century of the completion of the New Testament, is published—a document that is the oldest text from the Sermon on the Mount, as well as ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- A rare Greek manuscript of the New Testament that was being held in Chicago is heading back to Greece. Leaders at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago returned the manuscript to ...

A decade after archaeologists first set out to find the long-lost Scottish monastery where the Book of Deer was written, they've had their biggest breakthrough yet. The Book of Deer is an illuminated ...

This manuscript is a papyrus, and there are only 68 papyri known, with fragments of the Greek text of the New Testament. It is extraordinarily well preserved, by far the finest and most intact papyrus ...

(RNS) — The return follows an investigation the museum is conducting on the origins of more than 3,000 items in its collection. (RNS) — One year after the Green family — owners of the craft store ...

It was an “act of ecumenism” and a true gift—since the giver could not receive anything of equal value in return. That’s how Archbishop Demetrios, head of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, and ...

Previous forgeries make announcements of new archeological discoveries difficult to believe. Early copies of the Gospel of Mark are not as common as the other three gospels. The reason: 90 percent of ...