I've written here about New Testament scholar N.T. Wright and his most recent book, The Day the Revolution Began. The book was published recently and is now being made available in an online course ...

Scholars have discovered a 1,750-year-old portion of the Gospel of Matthew in a “layered” manuscript where the original Old Syriac-language writing had been erased and written over, something also ...

Folks are sometimes surprised to learn this little bit about the New Testament, that the earliest-written books are not the Gospels, but rather are Paul’s letters. First Thessalonians is likely the ...

Some years ago, in a fit of religious enthusiasm, I decided that I wanted to learn Greek. This was so that I could read the New Testament in its original language, a desire I could not really explain, ...

Mary of Magdala was liberated from seven demons by Jesus, remained faithfully by him, witnessed his crucifixion, watched his burial, attended his grave, was the first witness to his resurrection, and ...

Thanks for joining our study about truth in the New Testament Gospels. If you missed last week’s Part One/Old Testament discussion, please read it now since it is the foundation of what appears below.

That the historical Jesus was a Jew, that his followers were Jews, and that the Gospels as well as the letters written by the apostle Paul are Jewish writings, firmly embedded in first century C.E.

Mary of Magdala was liberated from seven demons by Jesus, remained faithfully by him, witnessed his crucifixion, watched his burial, attended his grave, was the first witness to his resurrection, and ...