New Evidence Builds the 'Strongest Case' Yet for the Historical Existence of Jesus ...

A 2025 Oxford study and ancient Roman sources together make the strongest case yet for historical evidence of Jesus. The post New Evidence Called "Strongest Ever" for the Historical Existence of Jesus ...

Two years ago, after Dale Allison published a short book on historical Jesus studies that seemed to question the legitimacy of the enterprise, Scot McKnight, a prominent Jesus scholar, declared that ...

In a church in Southern England one can visit the tomb of a certain Sarah Fletcher who—according to her epitaph—died “a martyr of excessive sensibility.” This high-sounding phrase conceals the ...

There have been so many quests for the historical Jesus that most of us have lost count. Albert Schweitzer famously ended the 19th-century quest by showing that the quest authors had succeeded only in ...

In this rigorous study, National Book Award winner Pagels (Why Religion?) digs into persistent questions about the historical Jesus. Devoting each chapter to a major sticking point, she discusses ...

Theological trends in Protestant divinity schools seem to come and go almost before laymen have time to find out what they are all about. Hardly was liberalism enthroned in the seminaries when ...

The fact that there are multiple sources behind the New Testament is one of the ways contemporary historians begin to assess the historicity of things. (giovanni ciardi / iStock / Getty Images) I was ...

For almost two hundred years historical criticism of the New Testament has been retreating before the advance of the historical Jesus. Great ramparts have been erected against him, yet each has been ...

Today, as Christians around the world commemorate Good Friday, Christian scholar and former priest John Dominic Crossan joins Fresh Air to discuss the historical Jesus, the role of crucifixion in ...