Apocrypha’ means ‘hidden’ in Greek, but it is often used to describe texts that are outside the official biblical canon.

The Shepherd of Hermas was one of the most widely read Christian texts in the early centuries of the church. Written in Rome ...

Jesus taught a different kind of altruism, the altruism that is not based only on those socially and biologically related to ...

An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, sold for nearly $3.9 million on June 11, 2024, at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A relic said to be part of Saint Thecla's arm has been kept in the Cathedral of Tarragona, Spain for centuries. Gaspar ...

People usually think about the Bible as a book with a fixed number of texts within its pages: 24 books in the Jewish version of the Bible; 66 for Protestants; 73 for Catholics; 81 if you’re Ethiopian ...

(JTA) — What did rabbis of late antiquity know about Christianity? To find out, an Israeli religion scholar turned to an Israeli zoologist who studies bats. Their strange-bedfellows paper on the topic ...