Here's a real-life mystery for you. A small-town Texas librarian finds a musty, old Bible and soon realizes that it's unlike any Bible she's ever seen. It's hundreds of years old and written in a ...

This is another cherished myth, that remains popular in the collected Legends and Tall Tales of the self-understanding of Protestants, and the highly embellished story of Luther’s revolt and ...

Theologian Roland Werner’s modern version Das Buch, now in its third edition, resonates with the unchurched and surprises the faithful. Roland Werner wears many hats, and most of them have something ...

It`s an old, tattered book, bound in calfskin and filled with mysteries. Such as who was Johan Schwartinge? What was his life like in the northern German lowlands? How did olive leaves get into the ...

Ecumenical cooperation in Germany has experienced “a bitter setback” after it was made public last Thursday that German Protestants rejected a joint project to revise the standard German translation ...

From mysterious ink stains to an alleged fight with the devil and women lost in translation, there are many surprising facts surrounding Luther's version of the Bible, translated 500 years ago.

Ohio family%27s Bible contained seven generations of births%2C marriages and deaths Cousin spotted reference to it online%2C police tracked it to Goodwill It was found in Georgia and with the help of ...

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...