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Israeli archaeologists recently discovered a coin, dating from the 11th century before Christ. It depicted "a man with long hair fighting a large animal with a feline tail." Ring any Old Testament bells?The coin was found near the Sorek River, which was the border between the ancient Israelite and Philistine territories 3,100 years ago. Sound vaguely familiar? The archaeologists thought so, too. While Shlomo Bunimovitz and Zvi Lederman of Tel Aviv University don't claim that the figure depicted on the coin is proof that Samson actually existed, they do see the coin as proof that stories about a Samson-like man existed independently of the Bible. Stated differently, the story of Samson was not the literary invention of a sixth-century B.C. scribe living in Babylon, as has commonly been assumed by mainstream biblical scholarship.Bunimovitz and Lederman made another interesting discovery: the Philistine side of the river was littered with pig bones, while there were no...

"O Codex Sinaiticus é um dos maiores tesouros escritos do mundo." Tem "uma enorme importância para a história da fixação do cânone bíblico", acrescenta Armindo Vaz. Isto quer dizer que, nos primeiros anos do século IV, o Códice Sinaítico, como pode ser designado em português, já continha todos os livros que viriam a ficar na Bíblia cristã: todos os do Antigo Testamento na versão dos Septuaginta (ou dos Setenta, utilizada pelos judeus da diáspora, em que se incluíam mais sete livros que na utilizada em Israel) e todo o Novo Testamento tal como o conhecemos hoje.