By Richard Alleyne, Science Correspondent Published: 5:45PM BST 08 Oct 2009 Professor Ellen van Wolde, a respected Old Testament scholar and author, claims the first sentence of Genesis "in the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" is not a...

This week biblical publishers and scholars announced that a new New International Version will be unveiled in 2011, the first overall update of the modern translation since 1984. But don't look for androgynous vocabulary. As soon as it's published, the...

NIV Bible update may spark battle The Bible translation that has served as the, well, bible of the evangelical movement is getting an update. Depending on how it's done, it could ignite the parent of all translation battles. Or it could reconcile a...