Early Christian Scripture and ancient codices draw collectors’ eyes to Paris The starring role in a June auction at Christie's will be taken by the Crosby-Schoyen Codex, the oldest known book in ...

An important piece of early Christian history, the Crosby-Schøyen Codex, sold for nearly $3.9 million on June 11, 2024, at Christie’s in London. This codex is a mid-fourth century book from Egypt ...

Early monasteries permitted monks to translate portions of the Bible into their own languages for personal devotion. But when scholars outside the monasteries began translating the Bible into English, ...

Constantine’s act of “calling himself a Christian and pouring in that flood of wealth and power on the church,” John Wesley charged in 1787, “was productive of more evil to the church than all the ten ...

In the early days of the Christian Church, the supranational, one-world ideal founded by Alexander the Great and perpetuated in the Roman Empire was very much alive. Although Greece as a nation was ...

The first printed Bible to include a map of the Holy Land appeared roughly 500 years ago, yet its vision of where sacred territory begins and ends still echoes in the way modern borders are drawn and ...

Amid all the preparations to turn Paris into a venue for the Olympic Games that begin in less than 100 days, one small corner of the French capital is preparing for another modern form of competition ...

Last year the Codex Sassoon, a Hebrew Bible more than 1,000 years old, became the most valuable manuscript sold at auction when it went for $38.1 million at Sotheby’s in New York, confirming New York ...

LONDON (RNS) — Amid all the preparations to turn Paris into a venue for the Olympic Games that begin in less than 100 days, one small corner of the French capital is preparing for another modern form ...