In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses the ...

Here’s a brain-teaser: the name “Jesus” would have meant absolutely nothing to the man from Nazareth himself. In fact, the letter “J” never existed during his era. For anyone who’s ever wondered how ...

As you step through the opening of the red-purple-blue curtains, you walk back centuries into the ancient Jewish tent Tabernacle. In the outer courtyard, you first see a bronze “altar of sacrifice,” ...

With signs of human settlement dating back at least 10,000 years, the Holy Land is a fertile ground for archaeologists. Hardly a month seems to go by without constructions workers building a new road ...

Archaeologists are known to work under challenging circumstances, dig out remains, and undergo months of research, sometimes even under extreme conditions, to bring back necessary evidence from the ...

It has always struck me as absurd that actors in English-language films set in other times or countries speak in accents. After all, the ancient Romans, Greeks, Israelites, Gaels or whatever other ...