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WHO WAS JESUS? • The mysterious figure of Christ has compelled ancient writers and modern scholars to probe beyond the Gospels for more about his life and ministry.
DIGGING FOR CLUES • Like almost all humans, Jesus may have made no mark on the archaeological record. But that doesn’t mean researchers aren’t looking.
THE LIFE OF JESUS • The Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John remain the primary sources for his biography.
BEYOND THE FIRST NOEL • Two millennia after Jesus’s birth, scholars are still unraveling the mysteries of the Christmas story.
CHRISTMAS AROUND THE WORLD • The birth of Jesus is celebrated internationally with a wide variety of idiosyncratic festivals and traditions.
THE MIRACLE WORKER • The New Testament chronicles more than 30 instances when Jesus healed the sick and defied the laws of physics and nature.
THE TWO MARYS • Christians revere both the mother of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, one of his most devoted and enigmatic followers.
WHO WROTE THE GOSPELS? • Much of the text was not merely copied down but also shaped by anonymous scribes, many of them enslaved.
HIS MISSION ON EARTH • Even scholars who believe Jesus was God’s son in human form disagree about a key question: What in the world was he doing here?
THE LAST SUPPER • Leonardo da Vinci’s Renaissance masterpiece serves as a guide to Jesus’s 12 disciples—including the one who would betray him.
WHY DID JESUS DIE? • He suffered on the cross for the salvation of a sinful humanity. But what does that even mean?
HOW THE FAITH EVOLVED • Jesus’s life and teachings inspired a wide range of denominations and sects. Aside from the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches, Christianity spun off into the Mormons and Jehovah’s Witnesses, among myriad smaller groups,
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IN HIS IMAGE • Cultures around the world see Jesus as one of their own.
