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, ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

T E Orr's observation (Belfast Telegraph, August 18) that Christianity has endured in one form or another since the 1st century is clearly beyond dispute.

Written almost two centuries years ago, it became a staple of L.A.’s first minyan in the 1850s, which convened in the home of the city’s first kosher butcher.