(RNS) — The New Testatment scholar has had a lifelong fascination with all things Catholic and has devoted her life's work to understanding Jesus as a first-century Jew.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jesus Christ (also known as Jesus of Galilee or Jesus of Nazareth) is the central figure in Christianity who is seen as the son of ...

BOSTON – A Harvard University professor on Tuesday unveiled a fourth-century fragment of papyrus she said is the only existing ancient text quoting Jesus explicitly referring to having a wife. Karen ...

The oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel, Saint Catherine's Monastery. (Wikimedia Commons) In 1988, my first year as a Jesuit novice in Boston, I spied a slim paperback book on ...

Joel B. Green’s recent blog post “What Makes a Good Biblical Scholar?” has gotten a lot of attention. Green opens, The best biblical scholars genuinely love Scripture, and come to its pages ready to ...

The biblical scholar Luke Timothy Johnson has sung the same tune for a long time, one that reassures those who are satisfied with the status quo. The quest for the historical Jesus, however, was ...