In first-century Judea, Jewish society was deeply fragmented into various factions with distinct ideologies and agendas. The Pharisees upheld strict adherence to Jewish law and traditions, ...

Because it is vastly more likely that Jesus’ contemporaries expected his imminent return to earth and the inauguration of the kingdom of God — a time, in first-century Jewish thought, that ...

In the 1st century B.C.E., the Kingdom of Judea was conquered by the Roman Empire. There is no historical dispute that in both the early Roman period and the Greek period, ...

For full-text access to all articles, subscribe to the Century. Like our contemporary communities, first century Judea was a multireligious society. In port cities and along trading routes, adherents ...

Even films designed to take us back to 1st-century Judea tend to come across as soothing or reassuring, which hardly matches how the apostles would have experienced those events.

The real-life Jesus, she says, likely had the short hair, trim beard and humble attire of Jewish philosophers of his time and place — the first century C.E. in the Roman province of Judea.

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...

First, let’s consider the structure of the statement. Jewish teachers in first-century Judea would often quote just the first line of a text, and their studious disciples would immediately ...

(RNS) This week, the assault on Mosul – the last stronghold of ISIS — began. As a student of religious history, it reminded me of the battles and horrors of first-century Judea. In 66 A.D ...