BIBLE NEWS: Earliest draft of the KJV found

While we use the NIV translation of the Bible for our quizzing, the King James Version (KJV) remains an essential resource and a key touchpoint for English translations of the Bible.  A new discovery was recently made of the oldest handwritten draft of the King James Bible every found!

While very few drafts — and no complete drafts — of the King James version have been found, Miller’s discovery is the first that can be attributed to a particular translator. Further study, he said, will shed light on the KJV, but also the English language it helped shape.
“The King James Bible is a monument of English religion, literature and the language itself,” he said, and it’s important to understand how it got built.

3000 year old wall from the era of Solomon

Archeology has been a source of constant comfort for the Christian apologist. Every time an archeologist has set out to disprove a record from the Bible, they have failed. Now, a new discovery of a 3000 year old wall from the time of Solomon attests to the strong, rich government of Israel's wisest king.

Speaking to reporters at the site Monday, Mazar, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, called her find "the most significant construction we have from First Temple days in Israel."

"It means that at that time, the 10th century, in Jerusalem there was a regime capable of carrying out such construction," she said.

It will be interesting to see what else can be found alongside this wall. We may learn many things about the times of David and Solomon.

Fragment from the World's Oldest Bible Found in Egypt

It may surprise you to learn that we have more copies of the ancient Bible than of any other ancient book in history. But scholars agree the thousands of copies we have are not NEARLY enough as we look to reconstruct the original words that Moses and others put down. Recently, another piece of the puzzle was found as a British Academic found a new fragment of one of the oldest Bible known - the Codex Sinaiticus.

Nikolas Sarris spotted a previously unseen section of the Codex Sinaiticus, which dates from about AD350, as he was trawling through photographs of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine's Monastery in Egypt.

The Codex, handwritten in Greek on animal skin, is the earliest known version of the Bible. Leaves from the priceless tome are divided between four institutions, including St Catherine's Monastery and the British Library, which has held the largest section of the ancient Bible since the Soviet Union sold its collection to Britain in 1933.

Academics from Britain, America, Egypt and Russia collaborated to put the entire Codex online this year but new fragments of the book are occasionally rediscovered.

Archeologists discover tomb of King Herod

There was a time when skeptics would point to historical facts in the Bible and use it to try and disprove its accuracy. But more and more, scientists are discovering finds that prove details from the historical accounts. For example, archeologists think they have found the tomb of King Herod, the man who was king over Israel when Jesus was born.

The tomb was originally about 25 meters high, a size that excavation director Ehud Netzer said would have been appropriate to a figure of Herod's political stature, the university's Institute of Archeology said in a news release today.

Digging work has continued this year at the structure first uncovered in May 2007 at Herodium, a hilltop fortress built by Herod 15 kilometers south of Jerusalem and east of Bethlehem.