Luke is venerated as a saint, and his feast day is universally marked as St Luke’s Day on 18 October in the Orthodox, ...

The Gospel of St Luke was actually written by Jesus' mother, Mary, making it the first female book in the Bible, a writer has claimed. Dr Adam Bradford believes the document people have come to know ...

Amy-Jill Levine and Ben Wither­ington III have written a unique commentary on Luke—the one I’ll turn to first for the foreseeable future. The first major commentary cowritten by a Jew and a Christian, ...

If you relate to my question last week of “Why bother reading the Bible?” — then I hope you’ll jump in for a four-week overview of the 66 books in the testaments, both older and newer. Let’s begin at ...

“I think you can keep great interest in what Jesus said even if he wasn’t resurrected,” came the cool voice in careful English by phone from Paris. Emmanuel Carrère was discussing his new book, The ...

The Bible is not just one book, but an entire library, with stories, songs, poetry, letters and history, as well as literature that might more obviously qualify as 'religious'. The Christian Bible has ...