Ancient Silver Scrolls with the oldest known Biblical Texts In 1979, Gabriel Barkay made an amazing discovery. While excavating a burial cave southwest of the Old City of Jerusalem, he found what is the oldest surviving Biblical texts to date. They were on two tiny Silver Scrolls, no larg...
Sotheby’s said the Codex Sassoon had been dated to either the late 9th or early 10th century on both scientific and paleographic grounds and contains almost the entirety of the Bible. The oldest copies of biblical text ever found were the Dead Sea Scrolls, which were discovered in Qumran in...
Located at the heart of what was known as “Clubland” thanks to the many gentlemen’s clubs once found in the surrounding streets, its clients quickly grew to include the gentry and the court of St James’s. In 1938, the company was awarded the warrant as chemists to Queen Elizabeth, l...
Originally titled “Three Kings of Orient,” this carol was written by journalist-turned-clergyman John Henry Hopkins in 1857 for a Christmas pageant and published six years later. The carol chronicles the Christian gospel of Matthew in which three biblical magi, commonly known as the three wise...
(men and women) on a Sunday morning a handful of times a year on a preaching team with my husband. Our church is about 250 people and it is a lovely place to share my experience and insight from a biblical standpoint with them. When the media team posts the sermon on the church web...
The Codex Sassoon is believed to be the very first codex, or manuscript in book form, of the Hebrew Bible. In the centuries prior to its writing there were only portions or sections of biblical texts in scroll form — which came to be known as the Dead Sea Scrolls. But these...