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Jesus Christ: Separating Historical Reality from Ancient Mythology

Jesus of Nazareth is perhaps the most significant individual in human history, and yet some skeptics and critics have questioned his existence. How much can we actually know about him beyond the ...
Religion Unplugged

From Virgin Birth To Miracles, A New Book Explores Historic Accounts Of Jesus

In “Miracles and Wonder,” historian Elaine Pagels examines the life of Jesus through historical, textual and theological ...
MassLive

Jesus Christ in ancient, non-biblical historical records

One of the earliest known depictions of Jesus Christ. Dated to the 4th century, it was found in a cemetery in an imperial villa that belonged to Constantine. Christians now observing Holy Week - the ...
The Times of Israel

What Do We Know About the Historical Jesus?

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The New Yorker

What Did Jesus Do?

When we meet Jesus of Nazareth at the beginning of the Gospel of Mark, almost surely the oldest of the four, he’s a full-grown man. He comes down from Galilee, meets John, an ascetic desert hermit who ...
PBS

Arrest and Execution

Now why did he leave Galilee and head for Jerusalem? Jesus apparently at some point makes the decision to leave his home territory and move to Jerusalem. Precisely why he did that is not clear. It ...

When was Jesus born? Likely not in December. See Christmas origins

Here’s the origin of Christmas as we know it, when it’s estimated Jesus might have been born, and when Christians started ...
Newsweek

How the Romans Used Crucifixion—Including Jesus’s—as a Political Weapon

Jesus stood accused of sedition, not blasphemy—a civil crime, not a religious one. Rome's punishment was a painful, and visible, death by crucifixion. In the age of Roman domination, only Rome ...
Salon

“Zealot”: The real Jesus

Very little is known about the historical Jesus, as opposed to the Jesus of myth who appears in the New Testament. He is mentioned by the 1st-century historian Flavius Josephus in reference to his ...
PBS

Arrest and Execution

Now why did he leave Galilee and head for Jerusalem? Jesus apparently at some point makes the decision to leave his home territory and move to Jerusalem. Precisely why he did that is not clear. It ...
Newsweek

What Do We Really Know About Jesus?

This past September, Harvard University professor Karen King unveiled a newly discovered Gospel fragment that she entitled "The Gospel of Jesus' Wife." This wisp of a papyrus has stirred up a hornet's ...