Historians and scientific researchers have long been divided over the exact birth location of Jesus Christ, along with other ...

Does the Gospel of Luke really tell the truth about the Nativity? Was Quirinius really the governor of Syria at the time of ...

The SS Ruslan (“Israel’s Mayflower ”) reached Jaffa port from Russia with 671 doctors, artists, and academics aboard. This ...

This suggests that no heir is living or available in the prophet’s time. Jesus’ birth in Bethlehem enables Matthew to link his coming to Micah’s hopes for Israel’s restoration. Mt. 2:17-18 cites ...

At the time of Jesus' birth some 2,000 years ago, one of the leading scientific theories of the day was the notion that the motion of the planets could be used to predict events on Earth.

My last column was about young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the German church facing the rise of Nazism before and ...

How might Christmas be a time for Christians to seek to draw closer to Jesus in his Jewish humanity? Luke’s Zechariah sings that the birth of Jesus would free Israel from fear of Gentile assaults.

Scholars uniformly back the historical authenticity of Jesus of Nazareth, as there is near-universal agreement — even in secular quarters — that the man at the center of the New Testament, at ...

Christians around the world, including in Portage la Prairie, are celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ, who they believe is ...

The Gospel of Matthew is concerned with the position of these early Christian churches within Israel ... quite some time. They actually show a consciousness of an older legacy of Jesus' tradition ...

Instead, they travel north to Nazareth in Galilee, which is modern-day Nazareth in Israel. The Gospel of Luke, an account of Jesus’ life which was written during the same period as the Gospel of ...