After fending off a belligerent interviewer from FoxNews.com, Reza Aslan says the book merely tries to describe for general readers a “200-year debate” over who Jesus was.

Lugano, SwitzerlandA leading New Testament scholar, and former Catholic priest, has criticized Pope Benedict XVI’s 2007 book on the Gospels, Jesus of Nazareth, saying that its insistence on ...

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 ...

Deconstructing the Republican Jesus. Biblical scholar Tony Keddie shows how the conservative movement enlisted the Bible to ... His book aims to show how “Republican Christian influencers have created ...

In the book of Isaiah, from which Jesus quotes, ... Proverbs, and several other books). Modern scholars often use the term "Hebrew Bible" to avoid the confessional terms Old Testament and Tanakh. ...

A number of scholars have noted that the Coptic writing in the Gospel of Jesus's Wife is similar to another early Christian text called the "Gospel of Thomas," even including a modern-day typo ...

In her new book, a scholar says Jesus probably didn't look anything like this modern picture. The Gospels in the Bible say that Jesus was a Jew who was born around 4 B.C. in Bethlehem and lived in ...

Scholar Taylor Petrey offers an original exploration of these topics and how they connect and intersect in his new book, “Tabernacles of Clay: Sexuality and Gender in Modern Mormonism.” ...

Modern biographers of the great classical composers have often been reluctant to concede the sincerity of their subjects’ assertions of religious belief. Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert ...