MOST people who consider themselves Christians will have their own imagined image of Jesus of Nazareth. Few really know who he was, what he did and said, or was reported as having said. Most know ...

Pope Leo, who was elected in May to the surprise of close conclave watchers, is the first to hail from the United States in ...

Even C. S. Lewis was skeptical of searches for the "historical Jesus." And why not? Even before Albert Schweitzer published his The Quest of the Historical Jesus in 1906, many Christians bemoaned ...

Jesus and Mary wore their humanity on their sleeves and in today’s world they remain examples of how human beings, women and men, ought to live.

MOST people who consider themselves Christians will have their own imagined image of Jesus of Nazareth. Few really know who he was, what he did and said, or was reported as having said. Most know him ...

In “Killing the Messiah: The Trial and Crucifixion of Jesus of Nazareth,” Nathanael J. Andrade parses Roman law to explain who was most responsible for Christ’s execution.

From time to time sensational claims that the Teacher of Righteousness of the Dead Sea Scrolls from Qumran anticipated the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus have received much notice in the ...

It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman governor Pontius Pilate had Jesus of Nazareth killed by his soldiers. He imposed a sentence that Roman judges often inflicted on social ...

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a “misreading” that has often come back to haunt Jews come Easter time.

To understand how the Roman authorities would have treated a dissident like Jesus, Andrade turned to a historical account of a trial that occurred 30 years after Jesus.