But the vast majority of texts from Christianity’s earliest centuries were written on papyrus, the paper of the ancient world. Conservator Emma Nichols examines a Hebrew text at the Cambridge ...

Chief among these is Mary Magdalene, a woman infamous in Western Christianity as an adulteress and repentant whore. Discoveries of new texts from the dry sands of Egypt, along with sharpened ...

Christians believe that the Bible is different from any other book because it is God’s word, or contains God’s words. Christians approach the Bible in different ways. The Bible is written by ...

This version is considered to be the closest to the original - the least suspected of Christian text-tampering. Elsewhere in this book, Josephus also reported the execution of St. John the Baptist ...

They had unearthed several early Christian texts including gospels of Thomas, Philip and Mary that had been buried away for around 1,600 years. These gospels were some of the many alternative ...