Category Archives: History
Meet the “Cloud of Witnesses” With Our New “Faithful Through the Ages” Newsletter
Who were the great men and women of church history? Faithful Through the Ages, our newest weekly email newsletter, looks at the individuals God used throughout history to build and shape His church. Continue reading
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Bible References in Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech
Today is the 48th anniversary of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s famous “I Have a Dream” speech. Like many of King’s speeches and sermons, it contains numerous references to Bible passages. Here are some of them. Continue reading
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Your Family Bible Stories
In our post last week about family Bibles, we asked you to share stories about your own family Bible, if you have one. Many of you responded with fantastic stories about Bibles that have been passed down your family tree … Continue reading
Wycliffe’s Bible now available on Bible Gateway
The newest addition to Bible Gateway’s library is actually a very old one: Wycliffe’s Old Testament<, which together with the New Testament that was already online makes the complete Wycliffe Bible available. Continue reading
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Does the Gospel of Thomas Belong Alongside the New Testament Gospels?
Are there “lost gospels” that show us the “true” Jesus? What is the Gospel of Thomas, and does it truly deserve a place alongside the four canonical Gospels? Continue reading
In praise of the King James Bible
Monday, May 2 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, and over the last few months there has been much reflection online about the significance and ongoing influence of the venerable KJV. We thought it might be useful to collect links to some of the more interesting KJV-related articles. Continue reading
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Crucifixion nails, Noah’s Ark, and the Jesus Tomb: how should we respond to sensational archaeological claims?
Every few years, it seems, a spectacular Bible-related archaeological claim catches media attention. Such claims dominate news websites for a few weeks and then tend to fade quickly from public attention, revealed as fakes—or at the very least shown to … Continue reading
Filed under Archaeology, Easter, History
The nameless soldiers of the New Testament
Among the supporting cast of the Easter story are many unnamed soldiers. Soldiers are sent to arrest Jesus at Gethsemane, mock and beat Jesus, and stand guard outside Christ’s tomb, among other activities. But who were these soldiers—who did they … Continue reading
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Appreciating the King James Bible, 400 years later
This year marks the 400th anniversary of arguably the single most influential book in the history of publishing: the King James Bible (abbreviated KJV or KJB). As the May anniversary date approaches, numerous books and many more articles are cropping … Continue reading
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Punctuating the Bible: The Pilcrow
Today, you’re most likely to run into the pilcrow—colloquially known as the paragraph mark and seen at the right—in Microsoft Word. If you’re anything like me, you stumbled across it quite by accident, and then spent the better part of … Continue reading
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