In the latest Bible in Recent News:
- Oldest Text of Leviticus discovered with Tech: JERUSALEM — The charred lump of a 2,000-year-old scroll sat in an Israeli archaeologist’s storeroom for decades, too brittle to open. Now, new imaging technology has revealed what was written inside: the earliest evidence of a biblical text in its standardized form. (Read more).
- Bible Prompts Bomb Scare: “Police were called to reports of a suspicious package at St Peter and St Paul’s in Chingford on Monday evening but officers later realised it was simply a Good News Bible wrapped in a tea towel.” (Read more).
- The Bible among the most banned books in the world. (Guardian) See also: “What the Bible, ‘Fifty Shades’ have in common.”