The LDS Church’s confidence in the authority and historicity of the Bible is mitigated only by scruples regarding the Bible’s history as a book. The Bible is “the word of God insofar as it is ...

Faith Works: The Bible is a library of spiritual reflection this Lenten season Back to the first books in the Bible: They tell us where we come from, who made us and claims us. Yes, creation ...

Divisions of the Bible. The Old Testament books are grouped in the following manner: 1) Historical books, which are arranged not in the order in which they were written but according to the order ...

Scientists have uncovered secrets in the Bible that rewrite the story of the Ark of the Covenant, Noah's Flood and when God created the universe, sparking a debate on the Holy Book's origins.

“The Bible,” in many ways a history of Christianity itself, is a marvelous work of scholarship and storytelling. Mr. Gordon chronicles the Christian canon’s beginnings and the early efforts ...

It is a cornerstone of Western literature and culture. But as the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible approaches, the authors of two new studies argue that its significance may have been ...

In his engaging history "The Book of Books" (Counterpoint, $28), British author Melvyn Bragg argues that the King James Bible, though often misused by oppressors, has been a positive catalyst for ...

Adam Gopnik reviews “Why the Bible Began,” by Jacob L. Wright, which examines how ancient Jewish history shaped the Hebrew Scriptures.

For example, Martin Luther’s Bible (1534) lists the Old Testament contents according to the 24 books of the Hebrew Bible but preserves an order of History, Poetry, and Prophecy.