The former poet laureate on growing up with Lawrence Durrell, rereading Henry James and getting to grips with the genius of Alexander Pope ...

In 1526, books appeared in England that no one had seen before: printed New Testaments in the English language. The public snapped them up. For the first time, people read now-common phrases such as ...

If the written word can spark encounters with sacred realities, what happens when we lose the ability and interest to read ...

It was never included in the Bible but it makes a number of claims ...

The theory links chilling passages from sacred texts banned from the Bible to mysterious features hidden beneath Antarctica's ...

The biblical corpus shared by Judaism and Christianity contains scenes of extraordinary violence, sometimes embodied by ...

"Hearst Magazines and AOL may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." A dealer in rare documents came forward with the Holy Grail of heretical texts: a letter that threatened to ...

Get your tickets before 5 p.m. on Saturday from Costcutters Ballyhea, Corbett Court, The Idle Hour or from any of the ticket ...

The earliest surviving fragments of the epic poem—the subject of Christopher Nolan's latest Hollywood blockbuster—date back ...

When I was a college student at Loyola Marymount University a few many years ago, one of the Jesuits on campus approached me ...

Funeral diplomacy was masterfully deployed during Ayatollah Khamenei's state funeral, where Iran used curated Quranic verses to broadcast specific geopolitical messages to visiting international deleg ...

Christopher Nolan's "The Odyssey" starts much like the Homeric epic on which it's based, depicting a series of trials that befall Odysseus (Matt Damon) on his long journey back to Ithaca from the ...