In Testament, director Paul Syrstad reimagines the Book of Acts in a gritty version of the modern world called Salem, ...

The Megiddo Mosaic, which was first discovered by an inmate at the Megiddo prison in northern Israel, is now on display for ...

For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Thanks to AI and modern carbon dating techniques, we have a new understanding of when the Dead Sea Scrolls were written – ...

Christians would flock to the Cave of Salome in Israel to pay tribute to Jesus' midwife. But a new study contests the ...

Despite being accused of murdering his own wife, children and countless other innocents, King Herod is still known as 'the ...

A new book shows where the Holy Family lived in Egypt Every year on 1 June, together with the whole world, Copts celebrate a ...

Lifshits is a co-author with IAA archaeologist Nir-Shimshon Paran of the study in the latest issue of the IAA journal 'Atiqot ...

Admittedly, a truly “historical” reconstruction of Mary’s life after Jesus is difficult to build. Another tradition holds ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority says archeologists digging at a Jerusalem site have found the oldest artifact that bears the inscription of Bethlehem – a 2 700-year-old seal with the name of Jesus’ ...

In the New Testament, the Gospels tell the story of Jesus’ birth—the first ... which was being rebuilt at the time by Herod Antipas. The ancient Jewish population was obliged to pay taxes ...

Some scholars argue that the emphasis on Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace arose from the desire to link him to an ancient Hebrew prophecy. The prophet Micah predicted that the Messiah would be born ...