Bible

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World's oldest Korean Bibles at Cambridge University Library

23 May 2019

The library is home to one of the most significant collections of early Korean bibles anywhere in the world.

Annular eclipse photographed at sunset in eastern New Mexico.

Oldest recorded solar eclipse helps date the Egyptian pharaohs

30 Oct 2017

Researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded. The event, which occurred on 30 October 1207 BC, is...

The Bible as a weapon of war

08 Feb 2017

How do former Lord’s Resistance Army soldiers – men, women and children who have used the Bible as a weapon of war – learn to reread the scriptures...

Detail from the Codex Zacynthius, Credit: Cambridge University Library

Lines of Thought: Communicating Faith

27 May 2016

Some of the world’s most important religious texts are currently on display in Cambridge as part of Cambridge University Library’s 600th anniversary...

Reformation ‘recycling’ may have saved rare painting from destruction

27 Nov 2015

A rare medieval painting depicting Judas’ betrayal of Christ may have survived destruction at the hands of 16th century iconoclasts after being ‘...

General Sir Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem in December 1917. The widely-circulated image of him entering the Old City on foot conjured up images of Christ-like humility in the Bible in a calculated attempt to win over hearts and minds.

A conflict of Biblical proportions: How the Bible was used to turn the First World War into a Holy War

08 Nov 2015

The significance of the Bible in the war, and anti-war efforts, of both Allied and Central powers in the First World War are to be examined in a new...

Skull of Bitus arietans – or Puff Adder – from the family Viperidae

How snake bites could help prevent heart attacks

28 Oct 2015

The Cambridge Animal Alphabet series celebrates Cambridge's connections with animals through literature, art, science and society. Here, V is for...

A stunning architectural frontispiece by the Master of the London Pliny (Inc.1.B.3.2[1360] , Credit: Cambridge University Library

Getting up close and personal with print

22 Oct 2014

A copy of the first western printed book, the prayer book of Henry VIII’s last wife and an unpublished poem by Carol Ann Duffy go on display in a...

Uncovering the text of the New Testament

12 Sep 2014

A £1.1m campaign by Cambridge University Library to secure one of the most important New Testament manuscripts – the seventh-century Codex Zacynthius...