Among the manuscripts was an Arabic translation of the Gospel of Mark, missing one small but very important thing: the phrase ...

It all started in the dusty storeroom of the Egyptian Sinai desert, the type of environment where dust particles float in the ...

The Gospels never mention Judas having a misguided but well-intentioned desire for Jesus to take up a role as an earthly king ...

The gospels are, first of all, extremely reliable historical documents for their own time and place. Mark tells us very much about, say, a community writing in the 70's.

The Gospels all present him as a messiah, clearly — but the question of what that actually means is not completely or consistently answered in an initial reading of the texts.

The Gospels come from the historiographic apex of ancient biography, the period of the early empire—in contrast to accounts of Socrates, when biography was just beginning to take shape.

So I have four things in mind: First, the Gospels come from witnesses either directly or indirectly but not far removed. So, Luke was not a witness, but I believe he talked to witnesses.

Casey Cep writes about Sarah Ruden’s “The Gospels: A New Translation,” which uses the original Greek to render the stories of Jesus’s life in more historically accurate language, but still ...

The Gospels, like all other written works, impose on their readers the burden of their incompleteness. However partial we may be to the doctrine of the true account or “realism,” we must concede at ...

The story of the Gospels has been told and re-told for centuries. Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion of the Christ is only the latest interpretation. Join NPR's Neal Conan to discuss the ...

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