Jesus, thus, was identified as a Jew both ethnically and religiously almost from birth. A second rite of ... sacrifice as metaphors for Jesus’s cosmic role in the salvation of humanity.

Jesus came to his own decisions within his understanding of Judaism on how his followers should behave. As one might expect from someone from an unconventional background (who was his actual father?), ...

To others, Christmastime is all of those things, plus a celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ ... at the society’s annual meeting. The background of the engraving contains now-familiar ...

Today is Christmas Eve, the day before Christmas. Most Christians around the world celebrate Jesus’ birth at this time. No one knows for sure when Jesus was born. Many scholars believe that ...

They make the birth a local event, translating the story into their own cultural contexts. And so we see Jesus wearing ... Whatever the motive or religious background of the artist, visual ...

Writing around the time of the destruction of the Second Temple, in 70 C.E., he gave Jesus’s story cosmic dimensions ... Jesus’s birth and says little about his family background.

The Bible reveals that, through the birth of Jesus, God became man to save His people from their sins so that they could go to Heaven and be with Him again. As Hegseth and Durkin explored ...

It raises questions about the virgin birth of Jesus, even pointing to ancient evidence that Jesus might have been fathered by a Roman soldier, possibly by rape. But before I ask you about that ...

Instead of a pastoral-looking Nativity scene, the creche features baby Jesus wrapped in a checkered ... as marking the place of Christ’s birth, hard times have helped dampen tensions between ...