Jacob and Esau were the twin sons of Isaac and Rebekah. The two boys were very, different in looks and in character, and, as someti...

       In the course of time Sarah died, and was buried in a cave which Abraham bought as a tomb for his family. Then, as he felt himself ...

       In the early days of Bible story there lived in the land of Ur of the Chaldees a man named Abram. Ur of the Chaldees was a city of ...

       Macaulay says in one of his essays, "If everything else in our language should perish, the English Bible alone would suffice t...

       In the reign of James I a Hebrew scholar, Hugh Broughton, insisted on the necessity of a new translation, and at the Hampton Court ...

       The earliest and most famous version of the Old Testament is the Septuagint, or Greek translation, executed by Alexandrian Greeks, ...

       There are a number of sacred books not accepted by Protestants as authorized parts of the Bible, and to these the name Apocrypha ha...

       The first five of the Old Testament books are grouped together as books of the law (Pentateuch); those from Joshua to Esther, inclu...

       Books of the New Testament. It is not a difficult matter to divide the twenty-seven books of the New Testament into three logical g...