The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a deep struggle, intertwined with historical and religious narratives that have shaped its course for generations. Central to this conflict is the land of ...

Israeli authorities are encroaching on the ancient site of Sebastia in the West Bank to create a tourist attraction aimed at settlers, raising worries of the displacement of Palestinians.

Medieval Christians drawing boundaries around ancient Israelite tribes on Holy Land maps had no idea they were influencing how later mapmakers would depict political power. Those red ink lines, meant ...

JERUSALEM—The cradle of Old Testament and New Testament history in Israel is the departure point for a feature-length film called "Route 60: The Biblical Highway" that is slated to open on Monday in 1 ...

A 1,600-year-old estate connected to the ancient Samaritans – a group depicted in the Bible – has been uncovered in Israel. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) announced the discovery in a Facebook ...

A 5,500-year-old Canaanite blade factory was recently uncovered in Israel — offering a rare link to a major group of people central to the Bible. The ancient workshop was discovered in Kiryat Gat, a ...

“ And Abram heard that his kinsman had been taken captive, and he armed his trained men, those born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and he pursued [them] until Dan (Genesis: 14:14).” “ In ...

Historical science came into its maturity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This does not mean that all the problems of a scientific historiography were settled, but at least the historians ...

Deciphering ancient texts with modern tools, Michael Langlois challenges what we know about the Dead Sea Scrolls A copy of a Greek inscription, made by laying wet paper or plaster over carved stone to ...

In a time of terrible grief and anger, does the study of ancient Israel require a particular political stance on modern Israel? Freedom of speech and inquiry, one of the bright lines dividing ...

(RNS) — Studying the Bible from a historic and critical lens is a longstanding project dating back to the 18th century. As new archaeological evidence comes to light, that project of better ...