Bethlehem: town in Judaea, birthplace of Jesus of Nazareth.Bethlehem
Bethlehem on the Madaba Map
Already mentioned in the Amarna Letters (fourteenth century…
Joseph, surnamed Caiaphas: the Jewish high priest between 18 and 37 CE, best known for his role during the trial of Jesus of Nazareth. The name Caiaphas is Greek and renders the Aramaean Qayyapâ or Qapâ'; his real name was…
In the Cyrus Cylinder, a cuneiform tablet now in the British Museum, Cyrus describes how he had conquered Babylon (October 539 BCE). It is interesting because the Persian king presents himself to his new subjects as the perfect ruler, carefully…
In the Cyrus Cylinder, a cuneiform tablet now in the British Museum, Cyrus describes how he had conquered Babylon (October 539 BCE). It is interesting because the Persian king presents himself to his new subjects as the perfect ruler, carefully…
Daniel 11: Jewish apocalyptic text about the Syrian Wars, waged between the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. Although the text is cryptic, all events can be identified.Although the Biblical book of Daniel describes the visions of a prophet who is presented…
In October 539 BCE, the Persian king Cyrus took Babylon, the ancient capital of an oriental empire covering modern Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Israel. In a broader sense, Babylon was the ancient world's capital of scholarship and science. The subject…