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?

History remembers the expression “better the turban than the tiara” by Gennadio Scolario, leader of the powerful Latinophobic ...

“Water for Elephants” is based on the novel by Sara Gruen’s novel, which also inspired the 2011 film with Reese Witherspoon ...

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

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

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 ...

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

This kid-friendly comedy stars James Cordon as the voice of this wide-eyed, mischievous CGI rabbit, and Domhnall Gleeson as Mr. McGregor’s great nephew, who inherits his uncle’s old home and ...

He brings his solo band to the Golden State Theatre, May 6, 8 p.m. on a Spring Tour of the West Coast plus two Arizona dates ...

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

According to Beyadenu, 6,788 Jews visited the Temple Mount over the five days during Passover that the holy site was open to Jews.