The entire Bible would have been a roll of immense length. It would have been clumsy and impractical. It would have made the location of a text very difficult, especially if the desired text occurred ...

Nosing about the East after biblical lore in 1844 a German scholar named Constantine Tischendorf traveled through the Sinai Peninsula and up to a lonely Orthodox Greek monastery atop Mount St.

At head of title: British Museum. Introduction signed: 1909-30, F. G. Kenyon; 1936, H. J. M. Milne; 1957, T. C. Skeat. New Testament and Clementine epistles. 1909 ...

A copy of the Hebrew Bible, thought to be 1,100 years old and one of the world's oldest intact books, has been sold at auction for $38m (£30m). The Codex Sassoon, a leather-bound, handwritten ...