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.

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. ...

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 ...

Papyrologists date the fragment to the second century CE, making it one of the earliest examples of Christian writing, even before the formation of the New Testament.

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 ...

Others speculated that Jesus disciples—and particularly Mary Magdalene, the first to see the risen Jesus—were hysterical. One modern scholar has more charitably claimed that the disciples were ...

One of the most famous moral teachings involving Jesus and an adulterous woman didn’t become part of the Bible until at least a hundred years after the Gospel of John was written.

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 ...

Since we are pushing this point, let’s not forget historical Jesus scholars, whose academic goal is to study the records, set the evidence in historical context, render judgment about the value ...

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.” ...