When I encounter the Good News as read by Johnny Cash, I encounter it as a living proclamation—not as a dead letter.

Among the manuscripts was an Arabic translation of the Gospel of Mark, missing one small but very important thing: the phrase ...

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – ...

It all started in the dusty storeroom of the Egyptian Sinai desert, the type of environment where dust particles float in the ...

How accurate is this, though, and either way do you think Jesus forgave Judas? (Indiana) A: I haven't watched "The Chosen," so I can't comment on the show writers' artistic choices and interpretations ...

The Gospels come from the historiographic apex of ancient biography, the period of the early empire—in contrast to accounts of Socrates, when biography was just beginning to take shape.

The New Testament, published in Christian Bibles used around the world, contains 27 manuscripts or texts. The most prominent of these are the four gospels known as Matthew, Mark, Luke and John ...

Plenty of other gospels circulated freely in those areas, and for many centuries, and Christian dissidents regularly reimported them into the mainstream Catholic and Orthodox world. Students of church ...

The Gospels, like all other written works, impose on their readers the burden of their incompleteness. However partial we may be to the doctrine of the true account or “realism,” we must concede at ...

Williams argues, moreover, that the Gospels are profoundly Jewish texts, and that even the least obviously Jewish Gospel (Luke’s) is shot through with Semitic detail.

His book might be rated as an antithetical companion piece to Schweitzer’s Quest of the Historical Jesus, for it is “The Quest of the God-in-man Idea as it Appears in the Gospels.” He traces ...

‘The Apocryphal Gospels’ Review: Good News and Fake News Reading the non-canonical accounts of Jesus gives us some idea of why Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get all the attention. By Michael J ...