One Salome is mentioned in the apocryphal Gospel of James as an associate of the unnamed midwife present at Christ’s birth.

My only hope! Jesus was born in Bethlehem, which is in Palestine. Jerusalem is one of the holiest of places in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and it is in Palestine.

Those who love the God of Israel need to be aware that this is much more than a poor advertising campaign, but the very delegitimization of Christians and Christianity in the Land in which Jesus ...

The story of Jesus's birth is oft told, but Mary and Joseph's unconventional courtship can also be found in the history of Judea. “The Nativity at Night” by Guido Reni, an Italian baroque painter.

The erasing of Palestine goes hand in hand with the unceasing attacks on the United Nations, international legal institutions and other bodies that insist on safeguarding Palestinian rights.

Let me explain: I understood that Jesus was born around 6BCE. This is partly based on the accepted date of King Herod the Great’s death, 4BCE.

TO say otherwise is a perverse form of historical revisionism. To wish otherwise is to wish for a counterfactual. Facts have a necessity to them: Given any fact 'p' it cannot be otherwise than p. But ...

This is the story of Christmas in the Holy Quran, of Isa (Jesus) in the land of Palestine — tormented today with more than 45,000 innocent Palestinian Arabs (mostly women and children) murdered ...

Pagels: Yes, these stories circulated after Jesus’ death among members of the Jewish community who regarded him as a false messiah, saying that Jesus’ father was a Roman soldier.

A common humanity When Judaea and Palestine covered more or less the same geographical space, Jesus could be both a Judaean and a Palestinian. Back then, it didn’t matter.

Jesus was a Jew, not an alien intruder in 1st-century Palestine. Whatever else he was, he was a reformer of Jewish beliefs, not an indiscriminate faultfinder of them.