When I encounter the Good News as read by Johnny Cash, I encounter it as a living proclamation—not as a dead letter.

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – ...

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

‘The Apocryphal Gospels’ Review: Good News and Fake News Reading the non-canonical accounts of Jesus gives us some idea of why Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get all the attention. By Michael J ...

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.

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.

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 ...