I've written here about New Testament scholar N.T. Wright and his most recent book, The Day the Revolution Began. The book was published recently and is now being made available in an online course ...

Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history. In Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, villain ...

(RNS) Is the New Testament missing a few books? In a move that may seem heretical to some Christians, a group of scholars and religious leaders has added 10 new texts to the Christian canon. The work, ...

Thanks for joining our study about truth in the New Testament Gospels. If you missed last week’s Part One/Old Testament discussion, please read it now since it is the foundation of what appears below.

Mary of Magdala was liberated from seven demons by Jesus, remained faithfully by him, witnessed his crucifixion, watched his burial, attended his grave, was the first witness to his resurrection, and ...

Some years ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, I decided that I wanted to learn Greek. This was so that I could read the New Testament in its original language, a desire I could not really explain, ...

That the historical Jesus was a Jew, that his followers were Jews, and that the Gospels as well as the letters written by the apostle Paul are Jewish writings, firmly embedded in first century C.E.

When you read the New Testament, you often come across the name Herod There were different rulers called Herod who formed ...

Mary of Magdala was liberated from seven demons by Jesus, remained faithfully by him, witnessed his crucifixion, watched his burial, attended his grave, was the first witness to his resurrection, and ...