The Jews divided their sacred books into sections. The chapter division, as found in the Bible today, dates from the thirteenth century and is the work of Stephen Langton, professor at the ...

Wright suggests in his new book, “Why the Bible Began ... than the pennant-winning ’62 Yankees. Division and defeat, Wright explains, made the Bible memorable. Successive expulsions ...

In the same way, you could say that Judaism and Christianity are divided by a common Bible—except that, historically speaking, the consequences of that division ... new book, there is still ...