Housed in the British Library, Codex Alexandrinus (aka GA 02) includes a 1500 year-old near complete Bible. It’s missing portions are due to damage and lost pages. Nonetheless, it is one of our oldest Genesis to Revelation copies of the Christian scriptures in one volume.

Growing up I was taught that the date of Christmas, December 25th, was a borrowed pagan festival. I couldn’t tell you exactly when or where, but I remember being told (more than a few times) that there were a myriad of ancient pagan festivals like Sol Invictus, Saturnalia, Brumalia, and European feasts like Yule, that also took place on the 25th of December.

This is Codex Washintonianus, a 5th century copy of the Gospels written in Greek on vellum (animal skin). It also contains both Matthew and Luke’s incarnation / nativity stories.

The preservation of P4 acts as a time capsule, hidden away inside another book, concealed in a jar, buried in a wall, in a house that was eventually buried. And yet, once again, the evidence from documents like it point to the story describing the events of that first Christmas being exactly what Christians have always read, believed, and testified to concerning the incarnation and virgin birth!

Despite being 1700 years old (and maybe even earlier within certain places of the text of Vaticanus) the evidence from literary artifacts like Codex Vaticanus and Sinaiticus point to the story describing the events of that first Christmas being exactly what Christians have always read, believed, and testified to concerning the incarnation and virgin birth!

All of the evidence from these literary artifacts point to the story describing the events of that first Christmas, being exactly what Christians have always read, believed, and testified to concerning the incarnation and virgin birth!

We see the scribe made a pretty big blunder in copying Luke’s genealogy of Jesus. This copy of the Gospels (with a commentary included afterwards) is largely generic, except for one very careless mistake made by the scribe…

The author of Hebrews, right at the beginning of his letter (1:8), makes a very interesting statement “about the Son.” “The Son” in the context is Jesus, yet the author of Hebrews goes on to say “about the Son” a quote from Pslam 45:6-7…

Paul, at 1 Corinthians 8:6, expands the well known passage from Deuteronomy 6:4 and inserts Jesus. In writing to the Corinthians Paul is redefining monotheism as Christ-centred monotheism.

Granville Sharp, was one of the first British campaigners for the abolition of the slave trade. Along with being a musician and classicist, Sharp was also a brilliant Greek grammarian and biblical scholar. Yesterday, Nov. 10th, was his birthday.

One of the most famous catalysts for the start of what eventually became known as the Protestant Reformation was Luther’s 95th Thesis, which were famously reported to have been nailed to the Castle Church in Wittenberg, on October 31st, 1517…

If you open up to nearly all modern English translations of the Gospel of John, at 5:4 you’ll notice something conspicuous. It goes from verse 3 to verse 5. So who took out verse 4? The answer to that question leads us back to the earliest surviving copies of John. Copies like our two 3rd century manuscripts of John like P75 and P66…

This is a 6th century Greek New Testament and one of the “purple codices.” Its pages are velum (calf skin), dyed purple, with both silver and gold leaf used for the lettering…

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. The inscription ends with an Alpha Cross Omega, Symbol of Christ, and the word Ichthus (Ίχθύς).

The ultimate fate of P.Oxy4633, a 3rd century papyrus commentary on Homer, a part of the Oxyrhynchus collection, was…. toilet paper.

10 years ago, Dr. Karen King, a senior Harvard historian in early Christianity, gave an announcement across from the Vatican that an ancient papyrus in which Jesus speaks of “his wife” had just been discovered…

The King James Bible was commissioned in 1604 and published in 1611. The beginning of it had a dedication to the King of England. James was potentially the most scholarly king to ever sit on the English throne. He produced his own commentary/paraphrase of Revelation, and even his own translation of the Psalms…

Everyone knows the number of the beast from the biblical book of Revelation, right?It’s 666. That’s just common knowledge! Or is it…

Because of the Latin Vulgate's (the Latin translation of the Bible that stood as the Bible of the church for a thousand years) influence we have portrayals all throughout the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance like that of Michelangelo’s statue of Moses, which is horned