The Story of the New Testament explores the decades after Jesus’ resurrection, tracing how His teachings spread orally and in ...

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 ...

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, ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

(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 ...

The word "gospel" means "good news." There are four Gospels in the New Testament, which also contains 13 letters of Paul, eight other letters, the book of Acts and Revelation. These books comprise the ...

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.

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

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 ...