The Gospels come from the historiographic apex of ancient biography, the period of the early empire—in contrast to accounts of Socrates, when biography was just beginning to take shape.

So I have four things in mind: First, the Gospels come from witnesses either directly or indirectly but not far removed. So, Luke was not a witness, but I believe he talked to witnesses.

The Gospels, like all other written works, impose on their readers the burden of their incompleteness. However partial we may be to the doctrine of the true account or “realism,” we must concede at ...

It all started in the dusty storeroom of the Egyptian Sinai desert, the type of environment where dust particles float in the ...

In recent year the 'apocryphal' 'gospels' have been making something of a comeback. (I put the word 'gospels' in inverted commas, since these documents are not really in the form of 'gospels'—on which ...

Gospels about Jesus once flourished. As one scholar has recently put it, they were "breeding like rabbits." Each of the varied Christian sects pushed its own version (s) and competition was lively.

The official canon became more important later on, due to the later 'Gnostic Gospels'. If 'alternative' Gospels are kicking around, the Church obviously has to officially confirm which books were ...

This exhibition explores the Gospels as they appeared in Medieval manuscript illumination. It presents books, manuscripts, and leaves drawn primarily from the Museum's manuscripts collection. The ...

An interview with Christopher Gasson If God is truly the Almighty and the basis of our existence, Christopher Gasson says, then everything anyone can say about life and the world will tell us more ...