This Easter Sunday, before pouncing on the chocolate eggs, let us imagine the scene in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago.

But what if Jesus’ family connections were as influential as ecclesiastic fervor in setting the course for a new religion?

Oscar Isaac stars as Jesus Christ in the new faith-based animated movie 'The King of Kings,' which made waves at the box ...

Pliny the Elder’s 37 volume Naturalis Historia is the largest single work to have survived from the Roman Empire. It includes ...

Even if you know every beat of the Holy Week narrative by heart, the hit show’s latest season is worth watching.

This year, the conference organizers asked participants to study different texts that describe the death of a mystery figure from history (who turned out to be King Herod), and come up with an ...

Indeed, the Pope’s last public sermon on Easter Sunday before he died, words delivered for him at the Vatican by an ...

A record number of Jews visited the Temple Mount during the Passover holiday, an organization working to strengthen Jewish ...

More than 130 years later, Wilde’s Salome still shocks, and Imago Theatre boldly commits to the bit down to every detail.

Himmler traveled to Barcelona in 1940 convinced that the Abbey of Montserrat hid in its tunnels the chalice from which Christ ...

Nathanael Andrade explores the historical record to puncture a “misreading” that has often come back to haunt Jews come ...

A 2,000-year-old ring discovered near Jerusalem may well have been worn by the man who condemned Jesus to death.