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 ...

While their lives and legacies differ significantly, scholars argue that Alexander the Great set the stage for Jesus's ...

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

On April 19, 1995, a bomb exploded outside a federal office building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people and injuring ...

( JTA) — When Ari Siegel took the stage on a recent episode of “Shark Tank,” he was dressed as Abraham Lincoln, but with a ...

When the president of El Salvador came to the White House this week, he rejected a U.S. Supreme Court order to “facilitate” ...

When the president of El Salvador came to the White House this week, he rejected a U.S. Supreme Court order to “facilitate” the return of a man locked inside one ...

That God, which ever lives and loves, One God, one law, one element, And one far-off divine event To which the whole creation moves.” —Alfred Lord Tennyso (1809-1892) When American colonists were ...

Israel may be among the first ... first year of war. That is an accomplishment.” How can we best understand Israel’s baby boom? I believe it is related to the notion of the Jewish people ...

Taking Easter seriously recognizes that the Resurrection of Jesus is the linchpin of human existence, and means that there is ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman ... the first source of the evil, but even in Rome itself.' Another historian, Flavius Josephus, wrote a book about Jewish history ...

So this is a framework that casts the catastrophe of the Jewish-Roman war that began in the year 66 ... figures in the early church, and the first Roman persecutions of Christianity.