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 ...

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

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 ...

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

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.

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 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 ...

Not originally, according to Casey. The discovery of the Dead Sea scrolls --which date from the period of the time of Jesus--offered scholars a way to 'test' the Greek of the Gospels.

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.

‘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 ...