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 ...

TWO of the best-known biblically recorded miracles performed by Jesus Christ "may have scientific explanations" that could leave the Bible disproved. Top researchers have found what they call a ...

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 ...

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 ...

On a Zoom call from her neat, book-lined home office in Princeton, New Jersey, Elaine Pagels explains how her latest book, “Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus,” differs from ...

Mark combined these disparate elements with other traditions passed on by word-of-mouth ... Mark depicts Jesus as performing an impressive array of healing miracles: the man with the unclean ...

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 ...

If you believe the believers, a secluded corner of the Queen of Heaven Cemetery in Hillside is a place of miracles ... Since then, through word of mouth, the faithful have been alerted, and ...