Ancient Greek kings used war elephants from Alexander to the Seleucids, shaping battles and empire-building across the ...

In our shared history, three major religions—Islam, Judaism, and Christianity—have shaped human experiences, each weaving a narrative rich in faith but also marked by significant conflicts. The ...

Picture Bibles are for little kids, a collection of stories from the Bible told in very simple language. Children’s Bibles ...

In 2014, Diwali, the festival of lights, will be celebrated on October 23 by Hindus, Jains and Sikhs. The word Diwali comes ...

And, that led to the last REAL BIG LIE: “Genocide”—completed the inversion, accusing the victims of history’s worst crime of ...

In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, history is everything. And it’s not working for the benefit of the Zionist project in the ancient land of Palestine.

Cultural Highlights is an annual campus-wide initiative that honors the diversity and richness of human experiences by spotlighting significant cultural observances, traditions, rituals, values, and ...

to get a sense of the geographical flow of the four canonical Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles; to learn about the major NT events that happened in the following Roman provinces and cities; to be ...

This is the introduction from noted scholar Hershel Shanks' book (Random House April 1998), an illuminating and readable background summary on the scrolls. Introduction Half a century has now passed ...

Myths in the ancient world were not confined to the world of movies and children’s books like they are today. They played a vital part in political life and ancient Greek diplomacy. For example, myths ...

During a recent series of excavations in the Jordan Valley of Israel, a team of archaeologists from the University of Haifa truly hit the jackpot, both figuratively and literally. Making a most ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc. 1 ...