FLINT, Michigan — Cross necklace pendants subtly skim over Greek letters adorning sweatshirts and T-shirts in a third-floor classroom at the University of Michigan-Flint.

The oldest Greek translation of the Hebrew Old Testament is known as the Septuagint, and was made between 300 and 130 B.C. It derives its name from the seventy or seventy two translators to whom ...

The Museum of the Bible’s website traces the manuscript’s history and the chain of ownership, from its creation in the late 10th- or early 11th century, through the looting of the monastery in ...