Early Christian art often depicts Jesus performing miracles while holding a short staff, a detail that has puzzled modern viewers. Far from presenting Christ as a magician, scholars argue that the ...

FORT WORTH (Reuters Life!) - A rare exhibit of Christian art in its infancy, including the earliest known depiction of Jesus' crucifixion, is an evocative display that holds as much historic, as ...

Last summer brought big news for scholars of early Christianity. Three previously unknown gospel fragments were published for the first time as part of an ongoing series, The Oxyrhynchus Papyri. These ...

Bonz is managing editor of Harvard Theological Review. She received a doctorate from Harvard Divinity School, with a dissertation on Luke-Acts as a literary challenge to the propaganda of imperial ...

What is the account that we get from Acts about the early history of the Christian church? The Book of Acts records or reports that there was a special event that took place at Pentecost, which would ...

Shaily Shashikant Patel receives funding from Virginia Tech. Virginia Tech is a state institution, and therefore research awards are technically "government-funded." Americans are fascinated by magic.