The Penultimate Supper?
17 April 2011The Last Supper of Jesus Christ was on the Wednesday, and not the Thursday, before his death, according to a new study which claims to have solved “the thorniest problem in the New Testament”.
All in the script
05 April 2011The power of “scriptural reasoning” to transform the way in which different faiths understand one another is to be the subject of a major lecture in Rome, by Cambridge’s Regius Professor of Divinity.
Ancient Bible fragments reveal a forgotten history
10 January 2011New research has uncovered a forgotten chapter in the history of the Bible, offering a rare glimpse of Byzantine Jewish life and culture.
The Greek Bible of the Byzantine Jews
01 September 2009Researchers at the Faculty of Divinity are using ancient manuscript fragments to re-evaluate a forgotten episode of biblical history.
Muslim leaders' "historic statement of friendship welcomed
11 October 2007A statement of peace and friendship, signed by more than 130 Muslim scholars and addressed to Christian leaders around the world has been hailed as an “historic” template for the future by Cambridge University academics.
