Rodney Stark is a sociologist of religion who informs us that in the Greco-Roman period into which Jesus entered, it was “legal” and “morally accepted…by all social classes” for parents to abandon ...
Jesus of Nazareth was executed today on the orders of the Roman State. Method of execution: Crucifixion. The charge under Roman law was treason, and under Herodian law blasphemy against the Temple.
Forty years after the 1977 miniseries Jesus of Nazareth premiered, the Smithsonian Channel has greenlit The Real Jesus Of Nazareth, a four-part series which will debut sometime next year. The show ...
Sunday is Easter, so let’s watch a guy who played Jesus watch himself portray the Son of God. Robert Powell played the titular role in “Jesus of Nazareth” 40 years ago. Today, he’s returning to the ...
The series, hosted by Robert Powell, who played the biblical figure in the 1977 miniseries “Jesus of Nazareth,” will premiere on Easter Sunday, April 16 at 8 p.m. The premiere is timed to the 40th ...
Stephen Prothero is a professor of religion at Boston University and the author of "The American Bible: How Our Words Unite, Divide, and Define a Nation." Scholars and believers alike tend to contrast ...
Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus' hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up by Mary and ...
IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Around 1820 Thomas Jefferson cut and ...
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Who was Jesus of Nazareth?

MOST people who consider themselves Christians will have their own imagined image of Jesus of Nazareth. Few really know who he was, what he did and said, or was reported as having said. Most know him ...