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?), ...

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.

Although many parts of the story of Jesus’ birth are historically unverifiable ... housed in Houston's Museum of Fine Arts. In the background, the flight into Egypt is depicted.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Because it depicts the truly cosmic dimensions of what happened ... Keywords: christmas birth of jesus rosary & art John Grondelski John M. Grondelski (Ph.D., Fordham) is former associate dean ...

VATICAN CITY (AP) — Vandals have beheaded a sculpture featuring the Virgin Mary giving birth to Jesus that had been exhibited in the cathedral in the Austrian city of Linz and drawn criticism ...