The modern Christmas themes of peace and joy were in short supply amid the ‘dislocation and danger’ of ancient Judea – as they are in today’s fractured world too.

By: Mary Dzon, University of Tennessee Manger scenes displayed around Christmastime usually feature an ox and an ass beside ...

What do we really know about Jesus as a child? A look at the sparse Gospel accounts, the turbulent world of first-century ...

Does the Gospel of Luke really tell the truth about the Nativity? Was Quirinius really the governor of Syria at the time of ...

With those words, Luke the Evangelist ends his narrative of Jesus’ conception, birth, and infancy. A few paragraphs later, he concludes his account of Jesus’ later childhood with a variation on the ...

While there are many ancient texts focusing on Jesus as a baby and as a man, much less is known about him as a child. Here’s ...

The original good news revisited. The apostles evangelized by telling the story of Jesus. Our gospel preaching and evangelism tend to tell the story of how to be saved personally. There is a major ...

According to Harnack, the essence of Christianity is Jesus’ preaching of the Father. The Son had no place in the Gospel as Jesus preached it. This “liberal” construction of the Gospel which Jesus ...

Ecce Homo ("Behold the Man"), Antonio Ciseri's depiction of Pilate presenting a scourged Jesus to the people of Jerusalem. (Wikimedia) Over the weekend, I saw a number of comments from Jewish Twitter ...

The Gospel of St Luke was actually written by Jesus' mother, Mary, making it the first female book in the Bible, a writer has claimed. Dr Adam Bradford believes the document people have come to know ...