The Bible is the subject of countless head-scratching mysteries. For centuries, religious and secular scholars alike have tried to uncover who wrote the holy text — and when it was written.

Texts like Matthew 1 or Luke 16 are everywhere in the New Testament and no doubt give rise to well-meaning statements like: “You can’t understand the New Testament without the Old Testament ...

A historian just found a hidden, ancient fragment of the Bible in the Vatican that no one has seen before. Skip to main content. ... The Old Syriac text contains part of Matthew 12:1.