In reality, after the Assyrian captivity from 720 BC and after the Babylonian captivity from 586 BC, there had not been an ...

While leaders have changed, borders have shifted, and even some names have been altered, a handful of nations referenced in ...

One of the four fasts mourning the Temple's destruction, today marks the day the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem began.

As a not too gross generalization, most Israeli Jews are animated by a particularistic ethos. Simply put, this is an ethic rooted in Jewish peoplehood, survival, and the country’s unique circumstances ...

This is the Daily Gospel for December 17, 2025, which is the Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent. READ MORE: Daily Gospel, December 16, 2025 Daily Gospel, December 15, 2025 The Book of the genealogy ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

In Jerusalem, the discovery of two homemade seals may provide unprecedented insights into an extremely critical period in Jewish history and the Bible. The artifact is showing that the city remained ...

Next time you find yourself swaying along to Bob Marley’s Exodus, pay attention to the lyrics. “We know where we’re going. We know where we’re from. We leaving Babylon. We going to our Father’s Land.” ...

The saints of suburbia are the gogetters. Under their influence suburban church life has become so thriving, says the Rev. Gibson Winter of Brighton, Mich, in the Christian Century, that it “has ...

The kiss between lovers, so common today as an expression of love, was not part of the customs of the ancient Israelites until after the Babylonian exile, in the 6th century BC. The author of the ...