David Litwa’s new book, How the Gospels Became History: Jesus and Mediterranean Myths — whose central claims are summarised in a recent article on this site — is a fascinating study about the ...

Antigone (Greta Oglesby) and Oedipus (Rev. Earl Miller) in “The Gospel at Colonus” at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park (all images by Joan Marcus/courtesy The Public Theater) Church parishioners ...

What Quispel read was from the “Gospel of Thomas” which French scholar Jean Dorrese had identified to be the opening of the fragments of the Greek Gospel of Thomas discovered in the 1890s. “Unlike the ...

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It is hard not to like The Gospel at Colonus, the current Zach revival at the Topfer Theatre. The production is at once joyous and tragic; beautifully rich and amazingly stark - it will have you on ...