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Mary Cooper begins Young Sheldon as the kind of steadfast Southern Baptist who won’t let her genius son skip grace before dinner.
The new season of Dallas Jenkins’ Biblical smash hit takes place during the week leading up to the crucifixion.
Elizabeth Tabish is a talented filmmaker who is best known for her breakout role as Mary Magdalene in the widely successful ...
Luke’s gospel follows Matthew when in chapter 2.27 he names Mary as a virgin. However, controversy surrounds the translation of this phrase from the original Hebrew Bible into the Greek Septuagint.
Eliza Griswold on Mary Magdalene, ... New Jersey. To underscore the point, Pagels went to fetch a copy of “The New Oxford Annotated Bible,” flipping between the Books of Matthew, Mark, ...
The growing interest in considering Mary Magdalene’s identity and significance should lead us to look again at the biblical text. She may not appear on every page in the Gospel accounts, but in ...
Nazareth Seminary is working with University of Mary’s “Mary College,” a satellite academic institution partnered with Arizona State University.
According to Luke, Mary and Joseph start out in Nazareth but need to go to Bethlehem to be counted in a Roman census. This, however, is where things start to fall apart for the Bethlehem narrative.
She’s one of the most recognized figures in the Bible—and perhaps the most misunderstood. That might be why scholars just can’t quit chasing down the truth about Mary Magdalene.
Luke 2:4 says that Joseph went from Nazareth in Galilee to Bethlehem to register with Mary. The account does not tell us how they travelled – and riding a donkey while heavily pregnant would ...
The real Mary was believed to be a Jewish woman from Nazareth, Galilee. At the time of Mary’s birth, Galilee was a region in ancient Palestine. Today, it is located in northern Israel.