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 ...

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. ...

Book Review. Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus. By Elaine Pagels Doubleday: 336 pages, $30 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org ...

In her new book, “Miracles and Wonder,” Elaine Pagels tries to find the man behind the faith. By Jack Hanson Jack Hanson is a writer and editor and a scholar of religion, literature and ...

(RNS) — The influential New Testament scholar E. P. Sanders, who devoted his career to promoting more accurate and, for Christian scholars, more sympathetic understandings of early Judaism, died ...

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 ...