Nimrod appears in the Bible for just four verses, yet his legend exploded into one of the most dramatic stories in ancient tradition. Described as the first mighty warrior and founder of powerful ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... ATLANTA — A judge on Monday signed off on an agreement settling an ownership dispute over the Rev. Martin Luther King’s traveling Bible and Nobel Peace Prize ...

After the swearing-in ceremony in which President Obama took the oath of office with his hand on Bibles owned by President Lincoln and Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Mr. Obama and Supreme Court Chief ...

A new interfaith exhibition that opens this week at the Vatican reveals how the roots of the 1611 King James Bible are almost entirely Catholic, despite the fact that the translation was often viewed ...

President Obama will take the oath of office with two Bibles that once belonged to a pair of civil rights icons: Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. King's "traveling Bible" was provided by his ...

Throngs of interested bidders, filling a major metropolitan auction house, waiting in eager anticipation for the sale of a sacred religious book owned by a national hero. The price would go high, well ...

A page of the original King James Bible Garry Wilmore - Flickr/Creative Commons When an archive yields an unexpected discovery, it's usually cause for celebration. But when that discovery involves the ...

This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. A Pastoral LifeThe circuit-riding Baptist minister Rome Wager breaks a horse on ranch land he leases at the southern end ...