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 ...

The Museum of the Bible is returning a medieval New Testament manuscript to the University of Athens after learning the document had been stolen from the Greek institution. One year ago the Green ...

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 ...

While you're scouring eBay for Christmas presents, there are scholars and collectors out there who are keeping an eye out for one-of-a-kind finds. Back in January, Geoffrey Smith, an assistant ...

DALLAS — Armed with high-tech cameras and computers, Daniel B. Wallace travels around the world to photograph New Testament manuscripts that are many centuries old. The pages are often fragile, and ...

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 ...

A 1,000-year-old manuscript looted during World War I has been returned to the Greek monastery from where it was stolen more than a century ago. The manuscript is one of the oldest handwritten gospels ...

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 ...