For a long time, Gospel scholars tended to treat the Gospels as a literary form almost entirely new and their own—a new "Christian" genre: Gospel. But during the last several decades, extensive compar...

No one knows for sure how, when, or by whom[1] the Gospels were written. There's tradition about it. And there are plenty of theories and opinions about it.

In my boyhood, I was told that God gave th...

I don't know all the reasons why paying attention to the actual details of the Gospels is so off-putting to some, but that seems to be the case. It appears that when the details of the Gospel texts do...