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Kony 2012

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...

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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...

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Detail of the Byzantine Emprire from a 14th-century world atlas created by Abraham and Jehuda Cresques

Clickable history

09 May 2013

Geographic information systems – once limited to the domain of physical geographers – are emerging as a promising tool to study the past, as...

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John Polkinghorne

Where God meets physics

28 Nov 2011

Eminent thinker and commentator Revd Dr John Polkinghorne, Fellow of the Royal Society, will be giving a public talk – titled A Destiny Beyond Death...

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Scriptural reasoning.

All in the script

05 Apr 2011

The 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...

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King James Bible title page

A masterpiece of biblical proportions

01 Feb 2011

Home to more than seven million books, Cambridge University Library is to celebrate the most influential, most bought, most read and most widely...

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