Until the sixteenth century, the Apocryphal books were an intrinsic part of the Bible, although often regarded as deuterocanonical ... providing an essentially literal word-for-word approach to the ...

The Bible tells an overall story about the history of the world: creation, fall, redemption and Last Judgement. But who wrote ...

The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts - Codex Vaticanus (4th century), Codex Sinaiticus (4th century) and Codex Alexandrinus (5th century) - are Greek Septuagint text.

In the early parts of the millennium, when the Bible had yet to be formalized by any organization of Christians, many apocryphal texts were written and considered extra-textual to the Torah ...

The Book of Enoch, a widely studied apocryphal text, provides a detailed and impressive account of the Nephilim, briefly mentioned in the Bible. According to the text, these giants were not merely ...