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Peter Manseau is is the Lilly Endowment Curator of American Religious History at the National Museum of American History. A new Smithsonian book and exhibition explores the ongoing conflicts and ...

The question of whether Jesus of Nazareth truly existed as a historical ... built over the homes of Peter, Andrew, and Philip. Excavations revealed a Roman-era fishing village beneath the church ...

So an artisan of some sort is probably the best way of describing him. Jesus grew up in Nazareth, a village in the Galilee. Now the Galilee, by most of the traditional accounts, is always ...

Candles burning late at night, his quill pen scratching "too hastily" as he later admitted, Jefferson composed a short monograph titled The Philosophy of Jesus of Nazareth. The subtitle explains ...

in Peter Richardson, with David Granskou ... (Acts 2:23) Be it known to you all, and to all the people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified (estaurōsate), whom ...