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 ...

LeCompte said apocryphal gospels refers to the general category of spiritually based writings. Some of these texts are canonical -- considered Scripture by the church -- as well as Gnostic.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...