The island of Elephantine in Egypt's Nile River contains the remains of a Jewish temple destroyed at the end of the 5th century B.C. Archaeologists have discovered a wealth of ancient documents ...

But the chief priests of the ancient Jewish temple at Jerusalem see Jesus as a charismatic and popular Jewish preacher who challenges their authority. They have Jesus arrested and tried before ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – which could revise the story of Judea ...

Other ancient writers describe Pilate as someone who was not above offending the Jews of Judaea.According to the first-century Jewish philosopher Philo and the historian Josephus, Pilate had his ...

But the chief priests of the ancient Jewish temple at Jerusalem see Jesus as a charismatic and popular Jewish preacher who challenges their authority. They have Jesus arrested and tried before ...

Douglas Murray moved by ancient High Priest's bell 'In an age when everything is 'digital and momentary, such an object reminds us of the depth and meaning of Jewish tradition,' says Douglas Murray.

Beyond ancient Jewish priests — hardly a model for Christians who broke with Judaism — the only “Christian” called priest in the New Testament is Jesus himself (who, of course, was Jewish ...

Similarly, in the Jewish temple later built in Leontopolis, another ancient Egyptian city, a fragmentary text refers to a kahenah, a feminized version of the Hebrew term for priest, kohen.

To reconstruct the history of ancient Israel, ... and a line of Jewish rulers descended from a priest named Simon Maccabeus gained semi-autonomy and eventually full independence from the Seleucids.

When archaeologist Jodi Magness climbed to the sunny hilltop overlooking the Sea of Galilee in the summer of 2010, she was unsure what she might find there. An ancient Jewish village known as ...

But the chief priests of the ancient Jewish temple at Jerusalem see Jesus as a charismatic and popular Jewish preacher who challenges their authority. They have Jesus arrested and tried before ...