“Comparable in importance to the Dead Sea Scrolls and of even greater significance to students of the New Testament.” That is how visiting Swiss Theologian Oscar Cullmann (TIME, March 23) described ...

Author's Note: All previous volumes of this series are here. The first 56 volumes are compiled into the book "Bible Study For Those Who Don't Read The Bible." "Part Two," featuring volumes 57-113, was ...

He’s familiar yet novel, this Muslim Jesus. We almost recognize the cadence. “Blessed is he who sees with his heart but whose heart is not in what he sees.” Still, it’s off somehow, and where are ...

Tim Stafford interprets Jesus’ life for a new generation in Surprised by Jesus. Every era needs a writer who will interpret Jesus for a new generation. To some degree, N. T. Wright has done this for ...

A book omitted from the Bible written more than 1,600 years ago paints Jesus in a very different light. Known as the Gospel of Thomas, the ancient text features 114 sayings attributed to Jesus, ...

When I read this passage, I’d like to hear the inflection that Jesus gave to these words. “Were not ten made clean? But the other nine, where are they?” The inflection of the words makes a ...

Vol. 90, No. 4, Jesus' Sayings in the Life of the Early Church: Papers Presented in Honor of Helmut Koester's Seventieth Birthday (Oct., 1997), pp. 393-409 (17 pages) Harvard Theological Review has ...

As a Western religion, Islam gives primacy to the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and considers Jesus to be a holy prophet. In The Muslim Jesus: Sayings and Stories in Islamic Literature, Tarif ...