In observance of Passover and Easter, millions of Jews and Christians are retelling ancient stories of faith from the Holy Land. But when it comes to day-to-day life in that ancient world — what ...

And the Lord said, "Let there be Light." He did not say "camera" and "action." But Hollywood has never been slow to improve on an author, nowhere more so than in the films based on biblical subjects.

Exciting news: Archeologists have discovered the remains of first-century house in Nazareth from the time of Jesus’s boyhood. While there’s no way of telling whether it’s “Jesus’s Home,” as The New ...

A scholar of the texts of the Qumran community and early Judaism, Matthias Henze teaches at Rice University, where he is founding director of the program in Jewish studies. His books include Jewish ...