A humorous, speculative novel fills in the lost years of Jesus' life, told from the perspective of Biff, his childhood best friend.

Retracing his own spiritual journey from atheism to faith, Lee Strobel, former legal editor of the Chicago Tribune, cross-examines a dozen experts with doctorates from schools like Cambridge, Princeton, and Brandeis who are recognized authorities in their own fields. Strobel challenges them with questions like, How reliable is the New Testament? Does evidence for Jesus exist outside the Bible? Is there any reason to believe the resurrection was an...

Theologian Dr. Jon Weber remains skeptical when people around the world become enthralled with Joshua Ben-Yosef, a man who is being hailed as Jesus Christ, making an interim appearance before his final coming, and just when Weber is ready to concede that Joshua is the Lord, he sees a small inconsistency.

Sifting through centuries of mythmaking, Reza Aslan sheds new light on one of history's most influential and enigmatic characters by examining Jesus through the lens of the tumultuous era in which he lived: first-century Palestine, an age awash in apocalyptic fervor. Scores of Jewish prophets, preachers, and would-be messiahs wandered through the Holy Land, bearing messages from God. This was the age of zealotry--a fervent nationalism that made resistance...

When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.

In this bold, momentous work, the popein his first book written as Benedict XVIseeks to salvage the person of Jesus from recent popular depictions and to restore Jesus true identity as discovered in the Gospels. Through his brilliance as a theologian and his personal conviction as a believer, the pope shares a rich, compelling, flesh-and-blood portrait of Jesus and incites us to encounter, face-to-face, the central figure of the Christian faith. From...

Venture back to the holy city of Jerusalem where a blind pauper craves salvation from his suffering, two people are separated by overpowering odds, and a strange healer who unleashes controversy and betrayal.

The sleepy eastern Washington wheat town of Antioch has suddenly become a gateway for the supernatural, from sightings of angels and messianic images to a weeping crucifix. Then a self-proclaimed prophet mysteriously appears with an astounding message. Burned-out former pastor Travis Jordan has been trying to hide his past in Antioch. Now the whole world is headed to his backyard to find the Messiah, and in the process, every spiritual assumption...

From Joseph F. Girzone, the best-selling author of Joshua and Joey, comes a warm, folksy look at the life and times of Jesus. Drawing from the synoptic gospels, he portrays Jesus as the man His contemporaries would have known. Combining the Gospels of Luke and Mark, Girzone weaves together a continuous narrative of Jesus' life. Intermingled with His life are historical details on what life was like for the average person at the time. But A Portrait...