The Church of the Apostles, built atop the home of Jesus' first disciples, was believed by many to be merely a myth. But ...
The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her ...
Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination. What does it reveal about her fraught views on ...
The first-century, Roman Jewish historian Josephus observed that some Jewish customs “had ... C.E., blamed the cataclysmic event on Jews as just punishment for surrendering Jesus to Pilate. By the ...
Similarly, Flavius Josephus, a first-century Jewish historian, references Jesus in his work "Antiquities of the Jews," specifically in the Testimonium Flavianum, stating, "Around this time there ...
On the positive side, the Septuagint opened up the Bible to the masses, helping to spread Jewish ideals of monotheism, peace, and justice, which became the basic moral standards of the civilized ...
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