Napoleon Bonaparte issued a proclamation to the Jews of Palestine promising the “reestablishment of ancient Jerusalem,” coupled with a plea for their support. This was the first promise by a modern ...

But over the course of the first and second centuries, they increasingly separated themselves from other Jews, until they began to see themselves as members of a non-Jewish movement: Christianity. In ...

Flavius Josephus was a Jewish aristocrat who was initially a general in the Jewish rebellion of 66-71 CE, but soon ...

(THE CONVERSATION) It’s a straightforward part of the Easter story: The Roman ... Jews as responsible – a belief that has shaped the global history of antisemitism. In the Gospels, the first ...