The miniseries left THR's TV critic wondering who the intended audience was for this "fractious and overwrought" adaptation of the most well-known and popular book in the history of humanity. By Jane ...

Archaeologists continue uncovering ancient cities, inscriptions and artifacts connected to stories found in the Bible. Some discoveries are forcing historians to reevaluate long-dismissed accounts ...

It’s a question that’s kept history buffs up at night: Did biblical writers copy-paste their most famous tales ...

(CBS News) Tonight is the third installment of what's become a wildly-popular mini-series on the History Channel, "The Bible." It was produced by the husband-and-wife team of actress Roma Downey and ...

A few characters on the side of a 3,000-year-old earthenware jug dating back to the time of King David have stumped archaeologists until now -- and a fresh translation may have profound ramifications ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...

Through its influence on the birth of both Christianity and Islam, the Hebrew Bible has changed history (for better and for worse). You need not be a learned scholar to realize that the Hebrew Bible ...

One of the most attractive and productive approaches in biblical studies in recent years goes by the German term Wirkungsgeschichte, that is, the history of the Bible’s influence or effects. The books ...