Modern Israel mirrors first-century Judea with its own internal divisions, reflecting religious, political, and ethnic fault lines. Orthodox, Conservative, and Reform Jews interpret Jewish law ...

The monastery was unearthed during an excavation by the Israel Antiquities Authority ... which lasted from the 1st century B.C. to the 4th century. "The early settlement is sited on a central ...

around the first century C.E.,” co-author Ayelet Gilboa, an archaeologist at the University of Haifa, tells the Times of Israel. “Tel Shiqmona offers evidence that already in the ninth century ...