THE LIFE of Jesus Christ has always been of interest to film-makers. The first feature-length film was released in 1906; by the time of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1927 blockbuster “The King of Kings” at least ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

Along the flat highway that approaches the mountains of Meteora, Greece, on the second floor of offices, is a family-­owned workshop of Byzantine icons. Father Pefkis, the iconographer, serves locally ...

Nicolas Cage's 'The Carpenter's Son' Turns an Apocryphal Text About Jesus' Youth Into a Horror Film LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the second century, as the canonical Gospels were being copied and circulated ...

Last year Popular Mechanics announced that a team of British scientists, assisted by Israeli archaeologists, had fashioned “the most accurate image” of the face of Jesus. Assuming that Jesus would ...

The gospels are not biographies in the modern sense of the word. Rather, they are stories told in such a way as to evoke a certain image of Jesus for a particular audience. They're trying to convey a ...

For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...

For modern skeptics, the sixth-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in beeswax and colored pigments. For believers, this ...