The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...

The Books of the Maccabees and Josephus’s Antiquities tell that the ‘Nasty Greeks’ did not storm in on a supremacist whim. Instead, Judean society was divided between ruling class Hellenists ...

Pharaoh’s daughter’s coming down and seeing a baby crying is mirrored by God’s actions in Exodus’ third chapter.

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...

Similarly, Martin Goodman, author of Herod the Great: Jewish King in a Roman World, notes that scholars approach Josephus carefully, trying to weed out the obvious biases, but “it would be very ...

After the death of the emperor Tiberius in 37 CE, the Roman state was jubilant. The old man was considered depraved, distant, ...

Given this diversity, it follows — as author Paula Fredriksen ... The first-century, Roman Jewish historian Josephus observed that some Jewish customs “had spread among pagan populations” while Jewish ...

There will be some questions on Winchelsea but the quiz will rapidly spiral into many directions. This year the eight rounds ...

Jon Kalman Stefansson’s novel “Heaven and Hell” recounts a 19th-century fishing trip and its aftermath. John Self is a book ...

During the past 50 years, the work of the Argentine writer Antonio Di Benedetto has found its way to readers like water ...

Victoria Christopher, co-author of "The Personal Librarian," turns to Langston Hughes and other lights of the Harlem ...