When I encounter the Good News as read by Johnny Cash, I encounter it as a living proclamation—not as a dead letter.

‘The Apocryphal Gospels’ Review: Good News and Fake News Reading the non-canonical accounts of Jesus gives us some idea of why Matthew, Mark, Luke and John get all the attention. By Michael J ...

The Gospels all present him as a messiah, clearly — but the question of what that actually means is not completely or consistently answered in an initial reading of the texts.

Christianity, it’s also important to remember that there are other paths commended by the other gospels. A very different verbal exchange marks the end of Luke. Instead of a call to go, the disciples ...

Casey Cep writes about Sarah Ruden’s “The Gospels: A New Translation,” which uses the original Greek to render the stories of Jesus’s life in more historically accurate language, but still ...

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 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.

The gospels are, first of all, extremely reliable historical documents for their own time and place. Mark tells us very much about, say, a community writing in the 70's.

Ehrman, the author of Jesus, Interrupted: Revealing the Hidden Contradictions in the Bible (and Why We Don't Know About Them), tells Terry Gross that he discourages readers from "smash [ing] the ...

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 ...

The story of the Gospels has been told and re-told for centuries. Mel Gibson's new movie, The Passion of the Christ is only the latest interpretation. Join NPR's Neal Conan to discuss the ...