The Bible is believed by many to span thousands of years of documented history, chronicling the rise of God's chosen people, the Israelites, and the life and death of Jesus Christ. By some estimates, ...

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When was the Hebrew Bible written? That question has long been the subject of heated debate, largely because of the fragmentary nature of the historical record. Piecing together the ancient history of ...

Israeli archaeologists have uncovered a rare temple and religious figurines which date back nearly 3,000 years to the time of the Kingdom of Judah. They say the finds provide rare testimony of a ...

The unusual artefact was unearthed in a tomb at Khirbet el-Qom, an archaeological site in what is the modern-day West Bank. But about 3,000 years ago, this would have been the biblical Kingdom of ...