Taken together, the four inscriptions establish at least the bare bones of her story: The queen definitely lived in the Assyrian Empire between the ninth and eighth centuries B.C., was married to ...

Whoever destroys a single life, it is as if they have destroyed the entire world. Whoever saves a single life, it is as if they have saved the entire world. (Babylonian Talmud, Sanhedrin 37a) ...

Alexander’s Journey, a groundbreaking diasporic stage production by the Pan-Macedonian Association of Melbourne, reimagines ...

This name Jesus for Christians, Allah for Muslims and YHVH for Jews, differs from all the other names that are just philosophical terms for various universal aspects or roles of God. This Divine name ...

Seventy years later, the Persian King Cyrus conquered Babylonia. He invited a group of Judeans to return to the land of Israel under the leadership of Ezra and Nehemiah. With that act, he helped ...

French pop historian Vincent Lemire's illustrated tome makes some loaded choices in depicting the Jewish parts of history.

In the early 20th century, architects turned to a newly discovered past to craft novel visions of the future: the ancient history of Mesopotamia. Eva Miller traces how both the mythology of Babel and ...

Agriculture is one of humanity’s oldest endeavors — so much so that it might seem there’s little left to radically change. Yet today, the agri-sector finds itself on the front lines of some of the ...

Reflecting on Ezra 9:8, this article explores the concept of "a little space of grace"—God’s gift of opportunity and mercy ...

A team of ancient literature experts have deciphered a Mesopotamain text that was missing for over 1,000 years. Etched on ...