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Her long-unpublished novel was the culmination of a years-long fascination.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 civil rights?

Compelling and comprehensive, this book may nonetheless be an uphill climb for lay readers with little more than a basic ...

Herod the Great was the one who sought to kill baby Jesus by slaughtering all the infant boys (Matthew 2). Jewish historian Josephus recounts how Herod engaged in a massive building project to ...

But of course there is other historical evidence that Jesus was dead at point A. The Jewish historian Josephus affirms his death as does the Roman Tacitus who states Jesus was put to death by Pontius ...

There are limits to the theology of geography. Our souls are not physical places; our souls are spiritual realities. But ...

Copenhagen, Denmark – On a freezing Saturday morning in Copenhagen, Ilan Pappe warmed up in a cinema hall, chatting and joking in fluent Arabic with one of the organisers of a conference he was ...

Sally Read combines art history and literary memoir to recount a spiritual mystery — and a quest to discover the Blessed ...

When we found it, it was exactly as it was here 2,800 years ago,” one researcher said of the site in the ancient heart of ...

Join Bart Ehrman and Johanna James for a captivating discussion on the historical evidence for Jesus, biblical mistranslations, and fascinating parallels with ancient religions. Explore themes like ...

In "The Gospel of Peace," the Rev. John Dear embarks on a kind of spiritual experiment: interpreting the three synoptic ...

So counsels Michael Morand, who was appointed by the mayor last year to serve as city historian. That’s just one of the many, many civic-leader hats Morand wears in town. He’s also on the board of the ...