Did Alexander the Great pave the way for Jesus? Hellenistic globalism, and the spread of Greek shaped the world in which Christianity emerged ...

“Koine Guide is an online training platform for anyone who wants to actually keep their New Testament Greek. It lets you translate through the Greek New Testament one verse at a time, take an optional ...

The beginning lines of the Gospel of John in koine Greek. Credit: Photo by author. Happy anniversary, Scripture scholars! Today marks 60 years since the promulgation of one of the Second Vatican ...

Archaeologists in Turkey recently unearthed a 1,500-year-old Christian floor mosaic in Urfa, a city traditionally regarded as the birthplace of Abraham. The discovery was reported by Anadolu Agency ...

A 1,600-year-old estate connected to the ancient Samaritans – a group depicted in the Bible – has been uncovered in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

Archaeologists recently unearthed the remains of a massive Roman council hall in Turkey – and the site holds carvings linked to early Christian worship. The discovery, found in the ancient city of ...

Byzantine Greek is the dominant form of Greek written during the Byzantine Empire (AD 330–1453). The spoken language changed significantly in this period and came close to Modern Greek, but most ...

A historian believes he’s found the location of Jesus Christ’s first miracle – and has newfound evidence to back it up. Scripture gives limited details about Jesus’ first miracle, which is said to ...

Friedrich Nietzsche once quipped that ‘God learnt Greek when he wanted to become an author’. On the April 14, 2025 Unesco agreed with him, formally recognising Greek as “the longest continuously ...