He might have even done some work at the nearby city of Sepphoris, a spot that the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus called “the Jewel of Galilee,” which was being rebuilt at the time by Herod ...

Historians and biblical scholars continue to debate why Pilate condemned Jesus. Was it for suggesting that he was the Messiah, or, in Pilate’s wording, “King of the Jews”?

Opinion: Jewish historian Flavius Josephus is the only independent source to attest to the existence and fate of Jesus, John the Baptist and James. I am frequently asked about independent evidence ...

Historians and biblical scholars continue to debate why Pilate condemned Jesus. Was it for suggesting that he was the Messiah, or, in Pilate’s wording, “King of the Jews”?

Rome’s Jewish client king of Judea, Herod the Great, built several amphitheaters to host games in the province during his reign in the 1st century BCE, according to the Jewish historian Josephus ...

In 164 B.C., Jewish rebels led by Judah Maccabee took Jerusalem and liberated the temple, an event commemorated in the festival of Hanukkah. But the rebels failed to conquer the Acra.

Although Josephus is regarded by many as a reputable historian on the same footing as other ancient authorities, scholars simply cannot accept that the book has been divinely inspired and foretold ...

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 ...

On occasion, performances of the Passion have led to violence against Jews, especially in the mediaeval period which one Catholic scholar of Christian-Jewish relations, Edward Flannery, described ...

For instance, Josephus’ account states that around 1,000 rebels took their lives toward the siege’s end, but some academics have argued that such an event may never have occurred.