Here’s what the scholars and evidence have to say ... according to the Jewish historian Josephus, writing around a century after Herod’s reign. Two of the amphitheaters were in the area ...

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

In the Bible's Old Testament, the Ark of the Covenant is linked to several miracles, such as protecting the Israelites from poisonous animals during their Exodus out of Egypt, stopping the flow of the ...

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

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 ...

Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination.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

Similarly, Flavius Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian ... authenticity of the shroud is highly controversial, with some scholars convinced it is a legitimate relic of Jesus, while a ...

Jewish Story has it that Alexander Bowed to the High ... This is probably the main reason why secular historians reject Josephus’ account. For the scholars to accept what Josephus recorded would mean ...

Given this diversity, it follows — as author Paula Fredriksen, a distinguished American scholar of early Christianity suggests ... The first-century, Roman Jewish historian Josephus observed that some ...