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

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

I am a scholar of religions with four degrees, including one in the New Testament and fluency in Biblical Greek, who has been studying the origins of Christianity for two decades, who also happens to be Muslim.

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

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.

There's only one reason to be crucified under the Roman Empire, and that is for treason or sedition. Crucifixion, we have to understand, was not actually a form of capital punishment for Rome. In fact, it was often the case that the criminal would be killed first and then crucified.