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The Trash of OxyrhynchusApril 19, 2021Have you ever had to dig through the trash to search for something you lost? Wouldn’t it be exciting if the next time you were looking for your retainer in the lunchroom trashcan you found an ancien ...

Herod’s TempleApril 12, 2021It was Rome’s golden age of power and glory — with its coliseums, aqueducts, and theaters. But another city on the far edge of the empire had a great building of its own. In Jerusalem, the huge an ...

Easter around the WorldApril 5, 2021Did you know that different parts of the world have different ways of celebrating Easter? Easter is celebrated by an estimated 2 billion plus Christians around the world. Most Easter traditions are ti ...

Julia E. SmithMarch 29, 2021“And God will say there shall be light, and there shall be light.” This may sound a bit strange to anyone used to a more common translation such as: “And God said, let there be light, and there ...

Jane AitkenMarch 22, 2021Robert Aitken was a well-known printer and the first to print a complete English Bible in America. But did you know it was his daughter, Jane Aitken, who was the first American woman to print the enti ...

Elizabeth de BohunMarch 15, 2021If you examine the opening page to the book of Psalms in the Bohun Book of Hours, you will see the crests of three noble families. These shields tell the story of Elizabeth Badlesmere. They represent ...

The “She” BibleMarch 8, 2021The King James Bible contains more than 780,000 words in over three million individual characters. But one edition of this Bible is famous because of a single letter. In one edition of the 1611 King J ...

William WilberforceFebruary 22, 2021The slave trade was so much a part of the global economy in the late 1700s that most people couldn’t imagine a world without slaves. Twelve men who could imagine such a world met in London in 1787 t ...

Abolition and the Liberty BellFebruary 15, 2021Few objects resound through American history more than the Liberty Bell. But did you know it wasn’t originally called the Liberty Bell? Or that the reason for the name is the Bible verse inscribed o ...