Historian, researcher, speaker. PhD c. @ University of Toronto. Husband. Son. Nerd Par Excellence. Lover of Dead Languages. Athlete (wannabe).
October marks the 490th year that the Myles Coverdale Bible, the first complete English translation of the Bible, was printed. 
The personal name of God throughout the Hebrew Old
Many modern English versions have supposed “missing verses” when compared with the King James Bible. 
Terminology: 
Flavius Josephus lived between c. 37 - c. 100 AD. He was a Jewish-Romano historian and military leader, known for writing many important works concerning the history and wars of Israel and the Romans. 
In John 12, following a discussion about the unbelief of a group of Jews, Jesus is recorded teaching. John makes an interesting comment following this narrative. He says that their doubt in Jesus’s teaching is actually a fulfillment of prophesy from the prophet Isaiah. 
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In the June of last year (2024)
Our earliest copies of both the Hebrew Old Testament and the Greek New Testament did not come with chapter and verse divisions. So where did they come from? 
Everyone knows the number of the beast from the biblical book of Revelation, right? It's 666. That's just common knowledge! 
Letter writing was a common practice in the ancient world.
What is typically referred to as "The Book of Enoch" is lst Enoch. There are actually three Enochs. 
It dates to the 2nd or 1st century BC, and gives a description of the
This is GA 2561, a copy of the Gospel of John from the 1lth century. 
As a young man in the 5th century, Patrick was kidnapped from his home in Roman Britain and spent years enslaved as a shepherd in Ireland. He eventually managed to escape back to Britain, and then returned as a missionary to convert the Irish to Christianity. 
This is P. Heid IV. 292, a 2nd or 3rd century papyrus that preserves nine fragmentary lines from an early
The ultimate fate of P.Oxy. 4633, a 3rd century papyrus commentary on Homer, a part of the Oxyrhynchus
Just before my 12th birthday I was diagnosed with a rare neurological condition that left me paralyzed from the waist down.
This is a 3rd century amulet discovered around the neck of skeletal remains from a dig in the ancient Roman town of Nida, near modern day Frankfurt, Germany. The artifact contained a tiny rolled manuscript which when it was discovered in 2018, was deemed too fragile to unroll.
In John 4 we have the story recorded for us of a conversation between Jesus and a Samaritan woman at a well in the land of Samaria. 
This is P.Oslo Inv. 303, a manuscript from the 4th century that acted as a Christian amulet. It is written in Greek and was used as an invocation to ward off evil from the household. This type of written appeal was popular in Egypt throughout antiquity. 