Christianity The Holy Spirit depicted as a dove, surrounded by angels, by Giaquinto, 1750s.Further information: Holy Spirit (Christianity) and God in Christianity#The Holy SpiritFor the large majority ...
Main article: Relics associated with JesusThe total destruction that ensued the siege of Jerusalem by the Romans in 70 AD made the survival of items from first century Judea very rare and almost no di ...
Main article: Depiction of JesusAn ancient wall painting depicting JesusJesus healing a paralytic in one of the first known images of Jesus from Dura Europos in the 2nd centuryThe oldest surviving pan ...
Main article: Criticism of JesusEarly critics of Jesus and Christianity included Celsus in the second century and Porphyry in the third. In the 19th century, Nietzsche was highly critical of Jesus, wh ...
Main article: Religious perspectives on JesusApart from his own disciples and followers, the Jews of Jesus' day generally rejected him as the Messiah, as do the great majority of Jews today. Christian ...
Prior to the Enlightenment, the gospels were usually regarded as accurate historical accounts, but since then scholars have emerged who question the reliability of the gospels and draw a distinction b ...
The four canonical gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John) are the main sources for the biography of Jesus, but other parts of the New Testament, such as the Pauline epistles, which were probably writ ...
Most scholars agree that Jesus was a Galilean Jew, born around the beginning of the first century, who died between 30 and 36 AD in Judea. The general scholarly consensus is that Jesus was a contempor ...
A typical Jew in Jesus' time had only one name, sometimes supplemented with the father's name or the individual's hometown. Thus, in the New Testament, Jesus is referred to as "Jesus of Nazareth" (Mat ...
Jesus (/?d?i?z?s/; Greek: ?ησο?? (Iesous), Classical Syriac: ???? (Isho); 7–2 BC to 30–33 AD), also referred to as Jesus of Nazareth, is the central figure of Christianity, whom the te ...