Sepphoris: The Forgotten Capital Just a stone's throw from Nazareth, the humble town where Jesus grew up, lies Sepphoris. In ...

The Gospels of Matthew and Luke both reference Bethlehem as the birthplace of Jesus, fulfilling a prophecy from the Old ...

Nazareth was a very small town when Jesus was born. When my wife and I visited there in 2014, our tour guide told us that it was scarcely as large as the parking lot of the Church of the ...

Christians who believe in a divine Son of God Messiah, do not draw a distinction between the Hebrew Bible’s eschatological hopes for God’s glorious future age of world wide peace and justice, and an ...

Even C. S. Lewis was skeptical of searches for the "historical Jesus." And why not? Even before Albert Schweitzer published his The Quest of the Historical Jesus in 1906, many Christians bemoaned ...

God incarnate, rabbi, mystic: who really was Jesus? Since the beginning of critical studies on the Gospels, hundreds of researchers have tried to read between the legends to determine the ...

"One can easily imagine that the people of Nazareth were enraged because Jesus was calling their own relative comfort and position into question." ...

By Jon Schell When Jesus returned to Nazareth, He spoke in the synagogue in front of people that he grew up with, according to Luke 4:22-30. Here, He should have been a hometown hero, but He wasn ...

The end of the USSR in 1991 was one of the most cataclysmic events in history, with its aftereffects still being felt three ...

Today we are in conversation with Reza Aslan, Iranian-American writer, scholar of religions, and professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside on his book Zealot: The Life ...