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To begin with, with the possible exception of the gospel of Luke, none of the gospels we have were written by the person after whom they are named.

In the 5,000-year history of Jewish thought, the notion of a God-man is completely anathema to everything Judaism stands for.

How could the Law of Retribution function properly when one party in a dispute was so wealthy and so powerful as to be virtually untouchable?

When you're a brown Muslim from Iran talking about Jesus on TV, you need to keep your cool at all times, OK? That's not rocket science.

The key to recognizing who Jesus was is to recognize this fundamental truth: He was a Jew.

[ ... ] there can be no a priori moral framework in a modern democracy [ ... ]

The idea of literalism in the Bible is a very new phenomenon. In many ways, it's a product of the scientific revolution.

Montanist Christians like Tertullian believed that Jesus possessed the same divine quality as God, but not in the same quantity as God.

The idea that education will lead to a lessening of bigotry is just factually incorrect.

In the history of the prophetic biblical canon that starts with Genesis, the Koran is by far the most tolerant of the views of other religions.

In recognition of his service, Rome named Herod "King of the Jews", granting him a kingdom that would ultimately grow larger than that of King Solomon

The New Testament is not a historical document.

Judea is, for all intents and purposes, a temple-state.

It is the job of the historian to say what is likely, and of faith to say what is possible.

Religion, it must be understood, is not faith. Religion is the story of faith.

The only question that matters with regard to a religion and its mythology is What do these stories mean?

Anyone who says that Iran will commit suicide with its nuclear power is a moron and has no business in discussion.

Indonesia, women are absolutely 100 percent equal to men

My biography of Jesus is probably the first popular biography that does not use the New Testament as its primary source material.

Obama has been the single worst president in modern American history in dealing with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

When you forcefully suppress religious nationalism, you radicalize it.

Why? Why not? Why not you? Why not now?

The bandits tapped into the widespread apocalyptic expectation that had gripped the Jews of Palestine in the wake of the Roman invasion.

Egyptians believed that the Pharaoh would be resurrected, but they did not accept the resurrection of the mases

No one speaks for God - not even the prophets (who speak about God).

This creator god was called Allah, which is not a proper name but a contraction of the word al-ilah, meaning simply the god.

Muhammad may have been, there is one detail that should not be lost in the tumult and confusion

Do not think that I have come to bring peace on earth. I have not come to bring peace, but the sword. MATTHEW 10:34

God doesn't make you a bigot. You're just a bigot.

Herod was convert,after all. His mother was Arab. His people, the Idumeans, had come to Judaism only a generation or two earlier.

no religion is inherently violent or peaceful; people are violent or peaceful.

Every single interview I have ever done on TV or in print says I'm a Muslim.

Over the last few years, the Islamic world has produced more female presidents and prime ministers than both Europe and North America combined.

The truth of the matter is that when you write about religion like I do, you're writing about something that people take very seriously.

No- one is ever told any story but their own.

You can be a follower of Jesus and not necessarily be a Christian.

[God] has established for you [the Arabs] the same religion enjoined on Noah, on Abraham, on Moses, and on Jesus, the Quran says (42:13).

A king with no place to lay his head. A king who came to serve, not to be served.

A politician is a politician whether he's wearing a suit or a funny hat.

I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States.

Both gospels employ the term "Son of God" exactly as it is used throughout the Hebrew Scriptures: as a royal title, not a description.

Many poets in Iran have learned to speak almost a secret language, where political issues are talked about in allegorical ways.

The Revolutionary Guard controls almost everything in Iran, and this is hurting the people.

The Muslim community is completely fractured - it doesn't really exist anymore; the only place it does exist is online.

A cosmic war is like a ritual drama in which participants act out on Earth a battle they believe is actually taking place in the heavens.

Ezekiel declared, in the center of all nations

Is it possible that Jesus, unlike 98 percent of his fellow Jews, was literate and educated? Yes, it's possible.

As noted, naming a book after someone significant was a common way of honoring that person and reflecting his views.

Few Iranians these days go through the fiction of calling themselves 'Persian.' Calling yourself Persian is a way of distancing themselves from Iran.

Despite two millennia of Christian apologetics, the fact is that belief in a dying and rising messiah simply did not exist in Judaism.

Manism (ancestor cults) - but it was not as concerned

Religion doesn't make people bigots. People are bigots and they use religion to justify their ideology.

Throughout the first two centuries of Islam, Muslims regularly read the Torah alongside the Quran.

Like most people born into a religious tradition, my faith was as familiar to me as my skin, and just as disregardable.

Should I act violently in defense of my religion, absolutely.

[ ... ] pluralism implies religious tolerance, not unchecked religious freedom.

Naming a book after a person was a standard way of reflecting that person's beliefs or representing his or her school of thought.

But in the end, he is the only Jesus that we can access by historical means. Everything else is a matter of faith.

There's nothing more distasteful than an academic having to, like, trot out his credentials. You really come off as a jerk when you do that.

I think if you place Jesus firmly in the historical context ... you can make very educated hypotheses and guesses about how he lived.

Of observable and verifiable events in the past is a product of the modern