Along with ritual immersion, John the Baptist called people to moral reform. His essential message, like the prophets of Israel before him, was one of repentance from sin in anticipation of God’s ...

With the penny being ushered out of circulation early in the 21st century, theologians, historians, archaeologists and numismatists continue to glean insights from coins of the first century, when ...

[That] year Sigehelm and Athelstan took to Rome – and also to India to [the shrines of] St Thomas and St Bartholomew – the alms which King Alfred had vowed to send there when they besieged the raiding ...

Purim is meant to be loud: a holiday for drinking, dressing up, yelling and retelling a story of miraculous survival. Which means it’s easy to miss a brief but significant verse near the end of the ...

In three weeks, Amichai Eliyahu will return to the Sartaba site and renew the ancient practice of lighting fires to signal the new Hebrew month.The post Israeli heritage minister raises ...

The first Friday Ramadan prayers at Al-Aqsa since the Israel-Hamas ceasefire have revived the Third Temple debate. Here's why Jerusalem's Temple Mount keeps the world on edge.

A study suggests hunger and stress may explain the Jesus temple cleansing, offering a human view of why tables were overturned in Jerusalem.

A new peer-reviewed article offers an alternative reading of the famous Gospel story that saw Jesus flipping the tables of ...

The British Museum has removed the word Palestine from displays about the ancient Middle East following complaints. Maps and ...

The fifth weekly biblical portion in Deuteronomy is Shoftim, “Judges.” The rabbis who were descendants of the ancient Pharisees viewed this portion as supporting the Pharisees’ views, rather than ...

A colloquium entitled “Palestinian history between past and present,” scheduled to take place on Friday, March 6, at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, should trigger all kinds of alarm bells. A ...

Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man ...