"Zealot": A biography of Jesus could have no more provocative title. But it turns out to be the perfect one for Reza Aslan's unearthing (or should that be un-heavening?) of "the Jesus before ...

The biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has sung the same tune for a long time, one that reassures those who are satisfied with the status quo. The quest for the historical Jesus, however, was ...

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I enjoyed Scot McKnight’s piece on the Historical Jesus, because much of it is important to say. Historical Jesus work is often deconstructive (the key word here is often). History at its best is ...

Theological trends in Protestant divinity schools seem to come and go almost before laymen have time to find out what they are all about. Hardly was liberalism enthroned in the seminaries when ...

Survey academic historians on the most important events in history and, regardless of their personal beliefs, they inevitably tend to list the execution of a Jewish carpenter some time around 33 AD as ...

Archaeologists working beneath one of Christianity’s holiest shrines say they have uncovered traces of a cultivated landscape ...

What race was Jesus of Nazareth, one of the most consequential figures in the history of the world? Nobody can say for certain, but based on recent comments by the head of the Church of England, it is ...

A lost artwork depicting Jesus's crucifixion, painted by 17th-century Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens, sold well ahead of ...