When I got to the last pages of “Miracles and Wonder,” I realized that while I knew a great deal more about the origins of Christianity than when I began, the mystery of Jesus himself had ...

Among the Jesus Seminar’s assertions was that many of the miracles attributed ... Hermeneutic, and Word of God” (1966), “The Five Gospels: The Search for the Authentic Words of Jesus ...

New evidence suggests potential ways Jesus Christ was able to perform two of his most memorable miracles. De Agostini via Getty Images Scientists aren’t fishing on this one. New research has ...

Pagels accepts as a given that Jesus existed. But starting with the Bible's claims that he was born to a virgin, Pagels unpacks the miracles ascribed to him to explain what Scripture's writers ...

These shared memories, passed along by word of mouth, are known as "oral tradition." They included stories of Jesus' miracles and healings, his parables and teachings, and his death. Eventually ...

Meanwhile, an early Jewish polemic claimed that Jesus was the illegitimate son of a Roman soldier nicknamed Panther—perhaps employing a tasteless but pointed pun on the Greek word parthenos ...

A portrait of Scottish philosopher David Hume Many people reject the idea of miracles today based on scientific reasoning. They say that the laws of nature are fixed and, therefore, people do not ...

hanging on his every word. According to the gospels, it was on such a day that one of his most moving healing miracles took place. Jesus was in the small town of Capernaum, where he and the ...