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Dallas Theological Seminary professor Daniel B. Wallace has said that newly discovered fragments from the Gospel of Mark could be the oldest New Testament artifacts ever found and date from the first century A.D., or during the time of eyewitnesses of Jesus' resurrection. Wallace announced his findings at UNC Chapel Hill on Feb. 1, 2012, during a debate in front of 1,000 people, where he unveiled that seven New Testament papyri had recently been discovered – six of them he said were probably from the second century, and one of them, the Gospel of Mark, probably from the first. The...

It’s the Good Book like you’ve never heard it before. The tech guru at Dallas Theological Seminary has built a web app that translates the Bible into “Texan.” But replacing “yous” with “ya’lls” is just one of the faith-based technology projects John Dyer’s involved in. Resident KERA Texan BJ Austin had no problem reading John Dyer’s Texas Bible aloud. In fact, her 'ya’lls' sounded pretty natural. That’s the idea, and that’s also why John Dyer’s translation app isn’t limited to the South. “I’m looking at John 15 where Jesus is talking to his Disciples right before he dies. So there’s...