Ever since the Protestant Revolt in the 16th century, the Catholic Church has been accused of ignoring, opposing, hiding and even destroying the Bible in order to keep it from the people.

Images released by the U.S. Department of Justice from a 16th-century book belonging to the Budapest University of Jewish Studies, which disappeared for 80 years following the Nazi invasion of ...

Like all earlier 16th-century “Protestants” (remember my warning earlier), Cranmer was trained in the Catholic priesthood.

It's strange to think an entire town could go missing, but that's exactly what happened to one medieval town which completely fell off the map in Norway.

What, exactly, made possible the translation of the Bible into the language of the common men and women of the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries? How, in a ...

The new study Bible released Tuesday will feature those reflections, in addition to insights from Bible scholars as well as historians highlighting 16th-century Anabaptist writing.

We want to lower the threshold. We want a people’s Bible, which I think is in the spirit of the 16th-century Anabaptist movement. Ordinary people raising questions, sometimes doubts. Many times those ...

The Bible was printed in Cambridge, England, in 1629 and contains 16th century Dutch and Flemish prints that were inserted in the volume after it was printed.

In the 16th century the scholar William Tyndale translated the Bible from Hebrew and Greek into English, in a way that displeased the church. He was later burned at the stake for heresy.

This 16th-century map is teeming with sea monsters. Most are based on a real mammal. At a time when the mortality rate for distant maritime voyages was 50 percent, the Bible, legend, and lore gave ...

New York officials announced that a 16-century book called the Di Gara text will be returned to its rightful owner after it was listed by a New York seller on AbeBooks.

Images released by the U.S. Department of Justice from a 16th-century book belonging to the Budapest University of Jewish Studies, which disappeared for 80 years following the Nazi invasion of ...