The death of Jesus in Luke's gospel is more like a martyr's death, it's much calmer, he goes inexorably to the cross, knowing that it is what must happen. Pilate isn't at fault at all.

I also have found Kenneth E. Bailey's works, Jesus Through Middle Eastern Eyes, Poet and Peasant, and Through Peasant Eyes (Literary and cultural approach to the Parables in Luke) very insightful.

Long’s discovery led to a fresh awareness: the power of parables is “the kingdom of God to which they refer.” Parables do ...

Dr Adam Bradford, who also works as a GP in London, says that key information about Jesus' birth and childhood in the Gospel of Luke could only have come from Mary.

Book review: If Jesus came to liberate all of us, does that mean queer liberation as well? Rolf R. Nolasco Jr. faces this question head-on in his new book Hearts Ablaze: Parables for the Queer Soul.

Jesus’ parables – short stories with moral lessons – were likewise designed to afflict, to draw us in but leave us uncomfortable. These teachings can be read as being about divine love and ...

I just finished a book by Lisa Lopez Smith titled "Revisiting the Parables of Jesus: Ancient Stories, Contemporary Audience." In the book, Smith recasts the characters of biblical parables in a ...

What do we know if anything about Luke? Traditions report that Luke was a companion of Paul, a physician and therefore someone learned in Hellenistic literary and scientific culture. All of those ...