Both infancy narratives build upon the memories of historical events and contain useful historical data. However, readers today should not assume that everything in the narratives is certain ...

A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty Images Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West ...

In their differing accounts of the first Christmas, the Gospels of Matthew and Luke provide important historical details about where and when Jesus was born. Sacred originsWith its shepherds and wise ...

Today’s chapter is Matthew 2. What I want to point out today is that Matthew, like any good author, writes with a specific purpose and a specific audience in mind. He’s not just putting words onto ...

The tutorial segment on “The Three Stages of Gospel Development” noted that the most important “stage” for Christian faith is the time of the Gospel writers. This is because it is there that the ...

During Christmas, we celebrate a phenomenon theologians call the incarnation. In scientific terms, the birth of Jesus Christ was a trans-dimensional dislocation; the Son of God stepped from the ...

Brent Landau, a biblical scholar at the University of Texas at Austin, rediscovered the Syriac manuscript in the Vatican archives some years ago and became the first person to translate it to English ...

Fresco Dionysiou Monastery, Athos. Mid. XVI century. Try to imagine not knowing who your father is. And then, imagine learning that your father is the one who condemned your life to bondage—not ...

A pope writing a book is an event for publishing and a risk for the papacy. Readers are a contentious lot, and the chances of criticism only increase when the topic at hand is the New Testament. As ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A doll representing the infant Jesus in St. Catherine's, the Franciscan church in the town of Bethlehem. David Silverman/Getty ...