Jesus

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• 3/25/18
  

  The Real Story of Pontius Pilate? It’s Complicated.

  by Mark D. Smith

  Common interpretations of Jewish and Christian sources have oversimplified the story, creating more confusion than clarity.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  12-14-17
  

  Weighing up the evidence for the ‘Historical Jesus’

  by Raphael Lataster

  Did a man called Jesus of Nazareth walk the earth?

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• SOURCE: Haaretz
  8-6-17
  

  The lost home of Jesus' apostles has just been found, archaeologists say

  Archaeologists believe Julias, the home of Jesus' apostles Peter, Andrew and Philip, was located on the northern shore of the Sea of Galilee.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6-16-16
  

  The Scholar Who Discovered the ‘Jesus's Wife’ Fragment Now Says It's Likely a Fake

  Karen King now says she was wrong.

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• 3-18-16
  

  Are the Stories in the Bible About the Last Days and Hours of Jesus True?

  by Bart D. Ehrman

  What science suggests is that they’re probably distorted. But does it matter?

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• SOURCE: New Historian
  8-26-15
  

  Gospel of Jesus’ Wife May Be Authentic, New Tests Suggest

  New tests of the ink used on an ancient papyrus known as the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife have suggested it might be authentic, adding fuel to an ongoing debate as to the nature of the document.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  12-18-14
  

  Did historical Jesus really exist? The evidence just doesn’t add up.

  by Raphael Lataster

  The first problem we encounter when trying to discover more about the Historical Jesus is the lack of early sources.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-10-14
  

  The book that claims Jesus had a wife and kids — and the embattled author behind it

  The text in question is called the Ecclesiastical History of Zacharias Rhetor, written on treated animal skin, which was brought to the United Kingdom in 1847 when the British Museum bought it from an Egyptian monastery.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12-12-13
  

  Insisting Jesus Was White Is Bad History and Bad Theology

  by Jonathan Merritt

  In trying to police his depiction, Megyn Kelly is wrong on both the facts and the essential universality of the Christian message.

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• 10-21-13
  

  Review of Reza Aslan's "Zealot"

  by Jim Cullen

  A notorious FOX interview can't obscure the value of a book whose utility outstrips its limits.

• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Ed.
  8-1-13
  

  Attack on Reza Aslan puts his Jesus book in the spotlight

  Not every scholarly study of early Christianity rockets to best-seller status thanks to an attack by a belligerent cable-network reporter.But that became the fate last week of Reza Aslan's Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth, just out from Random House in the United States while, in Britain, the Westbourne Press is rushing the book forward from its original August 18 publication date.The fortunes of Zealot offer a cautionary tale for scholars who publish on touchy subjects—or perhaps a primer on how to provoke conservative-media hostility, and then to capitalize on it, even if you're no religious or intellectual radical....

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• Jesus and Muhammad

  by Juan Cole

  Credit: Wiki Commons.Originally posted on Informed Comment.I’ve always liked Andrew Sullivan even when I disagree with him. I’m going to disagree with him, or more specifically Alexis de Tocqueville and one of his readers who quotes him:

• SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
  3-30-13
  

  Pope Francis links Turin Shroud to Jesus Christ as cloth is shown on television for Easter

  Francis made his first remarks on the mysterious cloth since being elected Pope in a special video message as the shroud was shown live on television for only the second time in its history.His remarks came on Holy Saturday, which falls between the commemoration of Christ’s crucifixion on Good Friday and his resurrection on Easter Sunday.Francis referred to the 14ft-long strip of sepia fabric, which is imprinted with the face and body of a bearded man, as “the Holy Shroud” and asked: “How is it that the faithful, like you, pause before this icon of a man scourged and crucified? It is because the Man of the Shroud invites us to contemplate Jesus of Nazareth....

• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  3-13-13
  

  Shape-shifting Jesus described in ancient Egyptian text

  A newly deciphered Egyptian text, dating back almost 1,200 years, tells part of the crucifixion story of Jesus with apocryphal plot twists, some of which have never been seen before.Written in the Coptic language, the ancient text tells of Pontius Pilate, the judge who authorized Jesus' crucifixion, having dinner with Jesus before his crucifixion and offering to sacrifice his own son in the place of Jesus. It also explains why Judas used a kiss, specifically, to betray Jesus — because Jesus had the ability to change shape, according to the text  — and it puts the day of the arrest of Jesus on Tuesday evening rather than Thursday evening, something that contravenes the Easter timeline.