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Catholic pope and saint
Historic evidence makes it highly probable that a prominent figure known as existed and led ; scholars differ, however, on what “brother” precisely denotes—blood brother, step‑brother, or close kinsma...
Early church writers offered three main defenses against reading the “brothers” of as ’s biological children: and advanced the claim they were ’s children from an earlier marriage (making them step‑br...
The First Council of Nicaea did not set the Christian biblical canon; contemporary records of the council make no decision on which books belong in Scripture . The widespread myth that Nicaea or Const...
Historians treat Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John as ancient, theologically driven biographies whose value for reconstructing the historical Jesus depends on methodical parsing of authorship, date, sourc...
Early Church Fathers read Matthew 24 primarily as a prophecy about the imminent judgment on Jerusalem and the Temple—an event they linked to the Roman destruction of 70 CE—while treating longer‑range ...
Ancient Greek historians learned about Palestine from a mix of direct observation, earlier Greek writings, Mediterranean trade contacts and a small number of surviving geographic and ethnographic acco...