A 25-year Spanish study into the trial and crucifixion of Jesus has concluded that the process was entirely legal. The court case was not a legal farce, argues professor Jose Maria Ribas Alba, but ...

Jesus of Nazareth was given a trial before Pontius Pilate and under Roman Law before being crucified. Crucifixion was nothing special at the time, it was the usual and ordinary punishment for many ...

Jose Maria Ribas Alba, Professor in Roman Law at Seville University in Spain, spent 25 years examining the details of Jesus' trial and comparing it to other legal proceedings of the time, the Local ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

President Donald Trump and Republicans in Congress have compared the president's expected impeachment and the impeachment inquiry to a host of dramatic historical events, including Pearl Harbor, the ...

Archaeologists say they've located Herod's palace near Jerusalem's Old City, where many biblical scholars believe Jesus was tried by Pontius Pilate. Getty Images Archaeologists in Jerusalem say they ...

No, I had not read Reza Aslan's excellent Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth before I wrote this, but I highly recommend it. I checked it our myself from the Public Library this Maundy ...

A criminal trial has begun of an archaeologist accused of forging a trove of Roman artifacts that allegedly show a third-century depiction of Jesus' crucifixion, Egyptian hieroglyphics and the early ...

Eds: This story was supplied by The Conversation for AP customers. The Associated Press does not guarantee the content. Nathanael Andrade, Binghamton University, State University of New York (THE ...