In the earliest Christian movement, there were actually many different writings circulated, and many traditions about the sayings of Jesus. Some of the leaders were concerned to say, "Well, which of ...

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In a well-known talk, Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie addressed the dangers of a single story: about the tendency to collapse rich, diverse strands into a flat, one-sided narrative. This ...

It so happens that the four gospels open in these very settings. Mark opens with a voice crying out in the wilderness.

How believers in the first millennium read non-canonical texts. If the life of Jesus were fully recorded, the books would overflow the world. So John the Evangelist says at the close of his gospel ...

Since 1985, a group of scholars has held meetings to debate whether the sayings and deeds of Jesus are historically true The Jesus Seminar is a group of New Testament scholars who have studied the ...

Recent gadfly theories about church council conspiracies that manipulated the New Testament into existence are bad—really bad-history. In Dan Brown's best-selling novel The Da Vinci Code, villain ...

Some years ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, I decided that I wanted to learn Greek. This was so that I could read the New Testament in its original language, a desire I could not really explain, ...

Some biblical scholars are too quick to say that, because a particular Gospel doesn’t include a given story or saying of Jesus, the Evangelist who wrote it must not have known about it. One thing that ...