A historian believes he’s found the location of Jesus Christ’s first miracle – and has newfound evidence to back it up.

Archaeologists working in Nazareth — Jesus' hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up by ...

As these questions were being hotly debated through the second half of the first century, most of Jesus’ followers viewed themselves as devout Jews. Even disciples like Paul, who insisted that ...

Archaeologists are expecting a long-running debate over the reported discovery of a first-century inscription naming Jesus of Nazareth. Writing in the new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review ...

Papyrologists date the fragment to the second century CE, making it one of the earliest examples of Christian writing, even before the formation of the New Testament.

His books include Jewish Apocalypticism in Late First Century Israel and Mind the Gap: How the Jewish Writings between the Old and New Testament Help Us Understand Jesus. You’ve focused on a period of ...

Roman roads avoided it until the 2nd century. Jesus came from a backwater of a backwater; he and his mother and father, the figures at the heart of the Christmas story, were most likely considered ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

In the second century a popular Christian teacher named Valentinus wrote in a letter to a man called Agathopous that Jesus “was continent, enduring all things.

Jesus' hometown — in modern-day Israel have identified a house dating to the first century that was regarded as the place where Jesus was brought up by Mary and Joseph. It was first uncovered in ...

Archaeologists have identified a first-century house in Nazareth that people in late antiquity and medieval times believed Jesus grew up in.