Timing is everything. Jesus’ fatal confrontations with religious and political authorities in Jerusalem coincided with the crowds of pilgrims arriving for Passover. Almost 2,000 years later, attentive ...

Princeton University religion professor Elaine Pagels, who helped bring into the public eye the biblical also-rans—the Gnostic Gospels that didn’t make it into the Christian canon—takes a fresh look ...

A beast from the sea with seven heads and 10 horns. A 200 million-man army. The four horsemen of the apocalypse. These and other mythical and terrifying images are part of the most esoteric writing of ...