What did it mean to be a holy man in first century Palestine? There is a complex variety of historical traditions about Jesus. He appears in our records, primarily the gospels, in different guises ...

Saint Photini lived in 1st century Palestine and was the woman that Christ met at Jacob's Well in Samaria as recorded in the Gospel according to John (4:4-26). After her encounter with Christ, she and ...

They still today present us with the challenge with which Jesus encountered his hearers in first-century Palestine. These little stories (together with the Lord's Prayer and the Beatitudes ...

II by Jayantha Somasundaram (First part of this article appeared In the early years of the Twentieth Century the Irish and ...

Being a shepherd in first century Palestine was not considered to be a privileged position in society. The Jewish leaders often criticised shepherds as the nature of their work meant they could ...

and weaving its activities into the diplomatic history of the first generation of the Palestine conflict. Covering the period roughly from World War II to the pivotal June War, 1967, Walter L. Hixson ...