Farmers searching for treasure stumbled upon a sealed jar of ancient papyrus texts, and among them was a manuscript that ...

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to ...

Other than the above mentions, the background of the Gospel of Thomas is unknown, other than the general time period of its writing and its similarity to other non-canonical writings. In 1945 ...

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke all have a similar structure, similar language, and tell similar stories, and together they are known as the Synoptic Gospels. It is also believed that the ...

Answers to such questions help us better understand the gospel accounts of Jesus’s life and message. The four canonical gospels provide the most data we have for a biography of Jesus ...

A controversial manuscript that is nearly 1,500 years old claims that Jesus Christ was married to prostitute Mary Magdalene ...

For the mass of the circumcision, the text for the day came from the Gospel of James, presented with the words that would have been used to introduce a standard passage from canonical Mark or John. We ...

The canonical gospels were written “that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing ye might have life through his name” (John 20:31). But pseudo-Thomas (the ...