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 ...

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.

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The gospels are, first of all, extremely reliable historical documents for their own time and place. Mark tells us very much about, say, a community writing in the 70's.

Casey Cep writes about Sarah Ruden’s “The Gospels: A New Translation,” which uses the original Greek to render the stories of Jesus’s life in more historically accurate language, but still ...

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.

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

Ehrman, the author of Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them), tells Terry Gross that he discourages readers from "smash [ing] the ...

‘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 ...