She was a woman who refused to submit to the religious beliefs and practices of her husband...
Israel
Archaeology, epigraphy, and literature function in tandem in order to establish a more coherent account. Introduction The...
Looking at ancient Israeli construction and architecture, writing, industrial tools, and weapons of war. Introduction Technology enabled...
Many exaggerated claims have been made concerning the effects and consequences of the crusades on life in...
What were the motivating factors for crusaders, from the Pope to the humblest warrior? By Mark CartwrightHistorian...
Herod built on a Roman scale. King Herod had a substantial architectural heritage to his name in...
Banias was first settled by the Canaanites c.198 BCE and later renamed Caesarea Philippi by the Romans...
Numerous excavations and a fairly large number of contemporary written documents give us a good picture of...
A shrine to a “wise woman” fulfilling an oraculor role. By Philippe BohstromArchaeologist The town of Abel Beth...
The Canaanites were the people who inhabited the land of what is now Israel and Palestine before...
After about 1244 CE, the city remained a backwater of the late medieval Muslim empires and would...
According to historical sources and archaeological facts, Magdala was an important town with social and economic development....
Painstaking reconstruction of fragments of text has revealed the working draft of an ancient Jewish calendar and...
Five of the Dead Sea Scrolls at the Museum of Bible were found to be forged. The...
After freeing the Zealots from the Temple, the Edomites and Zealots massacred the common people. Introduction The...
A literary alternative to the murderous, supersessionist versions of the story that animates the site. Given the...
Completed in 691 CE, the Dome of the Rock is the oldest extant Islamic building in the...
The Amorites occupied large parts of southern Mesopotamia from the 21st century BCE to the end of...
Human habitation of the land of Canaan goes far back with both Cro-magnon and Neanderthal skeletons having...
This followed a long period of tension and violence, marked by the first Jewish uprising which ended...
The outcome was the formation of the Hasmonean Dynasty, an autonomous Jewish rule over Palestine that would...
The story of King Solomon begins with his father, King David, and his mother, Bathsheba. Introduction According...
Allegedly around 1000 BCE, David was the eighth son (and youngest) of Jesse, from the tribe of...
The ancient synagogue represents an inclusive, localized form of worship that did not crystallize until the destruction...
The Torah deals with the origins of not only the Israelites, but also – at least according...
Jericho started as a popular camping ground for the hunter-gathers of the Natufian culture dating to 10000...
Whoever the ancient Canaanites were, their identity was lost in the successive invasions by foreign people interested...
The Herodian dynasty is named after Herod the Great, who was recognized as king of the Jews...
Israel was a regional superpower, but unable to retain its independence in the face of Assyrian imperialism....
Arthur Balfour was a complex character, hard to read. His reasons for backing Zionism may have been...