In 1896 Flinders Petrie discovered what is for many the most important achievement of his long and celebrated career as an archeologist. It is a large granite stela, over ten feet high, dating to 1208 ...

For a text commonly thought of as foundational, it can feel odd to think that there was a time when it didn’t really exist. The Bible, though, has a birthday, and no one knows quite when it is. On ...

Why was the Hebrew Bible written? In Why the Bible Began: An Alternative History of Scripture and its Origins (Cambridge, Oct. 19), Hebrew Bible professor at Emory University Jacob L. Wright offers ...