Suppose: a busy Galilean street, the sidewalks thronged with Aramaic chatter, and someone cries out Yeshua! Heads turn because in first-century Judea, the name was as common as “Josh” or “Joe” is ...

Reimagined as a political activist. The story of Jesus has become so familiar to us that we sometimes fail to grasp just how shocking, disturbing, or ultimately motivating it really is. Even films ...

Jewish law courts in first century Judea were presided over by a single judge and, just as when in this country the local squire was automatically the local magistrate, they were unpaid but ...