There is a bilingual book of the Gospels, c.1300, which may have been produced to help the Latin bride of a Byzantine emperor learn Greek. |
Mack greatly overemphasizes the influence of Hellenism on Jesus and the Gospels. |
The Gospels are rendered into several of these languages and printed by the Society. |
But if we look at the stories told in the Gospels about the conception and birth of Jesus, what we find is far from simple or unproblematic. |
It's as if the screenwriters have gone through the Gospels with a blue pencil, trying to recast the words so that we can accept them. |
Matthew and Luke included accounts of Jesus' virgin birth in their Gospels because, as Thomas Cahill says, they were convinced they were true. |