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.

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

JESUS BEFORE THE GOSPELS: HOW THE EARLIEST CHRISTIANS REMEMBERED, CHANGED, AND INVENTED THEIR STORIES OF THE SAVIOR By Bart D. Ehrman Published by HarperOne, 336 pages, $27.99 ...

Plenty of other gospels circulated freely in those areas, and for many centuries, and Christian dissidents regularly reimported them into the mainstream Catholic and Orthodox world. Students of church ...

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

The four gospels that we've got in the New Testament are in fact the earliest (they all date to the first century) and most historically useful texts that we have regarding Jesus.

More intuitively, the Gnostic gospels were written later than the four in the Bible, so you'd think them a less reliable source of information on Jesus. Over the centuries the Church settled which ...

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 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 ...

The Gospels Come Home As the Lindisfarne Gospels visit Durham for a new exhibition after four centuries' absence, author David Almond explores what they mean to his fellow North-Easterners.