It is known that the death of Jesus Christ occurred somewhere between AD 30 and AD 33. But how exactly did he die?

The Bible's account of the crucifixion of Jesus contains a puzzling detail: he died on the cross before the two criminals crucified beside him. Now, a medical study examining historical records and ...

At the beginning of the summer of 1968 a team of archaeologists under the direction of V. Tzaferis discovered four cave-tombs at Giv'at ha-Mivtar (Ras el-Masaref), which is just north of Jerusalem ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of Christians worldwide today are observing one of the most somber moments of their faith. Good Friday commemorates the ...

As they took him down off the cross, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that day. He was dead. For three hours he had been subjected to the harshest punishment the Roman Empire or almost any earthly ...

The crucifixion is apparently under review. In his doctoral thesis, newly graduated Swedish theologian Gunnar Samuelsson argues that the cross Jesus supposedly died on may not actually have been a ...

(RNS) — In recent decades, some Christians have moved away from the theory of penal substitutionary atonement, which summons up the idea of an angry God who needs to be appeased. (RNS) — When he ...

The thief on the cross next to Jesus waited in suffering for the promise of paradise. So do many of us. When readers thumb through their Bibles for examples of courage, few consider flipping to the ...

Now why did he leave Galilee and head for Jerusalem? Jesus apparently at some point makes the decision to leave his home territory and move to Jerusalem. Precisely why he did that is not clear. It ...