This story appears in the August 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. ‘Surely I am coming soon.’ The Bible’s penultimate verse, prophesying the return of Jesus Christ, has always fasc ...

This story appears in the December 2017 issue of National Geographic magazine. This month’s cover story, “What Archaeology Is Telling Us About the Real Jesus,” does what people have been ...

A version of this story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine. From scrolls to codices to the books we know today, the Bible has taken different shapes and has been ...