When you dig here you touch the Bible with your own hands,” said Yossi Dagan, chairman of the Samaria Regional Council.The post Israel kicks off transformation of biblical Sebastia into ...

The subtitle of Doron Spielman’s When the Stones Speak reveals the dual purposes he had in mind when he wrote the book. It ...

At the turn of the twentieth century, some Jewish exiles dreamed of a homeland in Palestine. The Jewish Territorial ...

Kingdom of Israel; place of early Christian expansion (John 4; Acts 1:8; 8:1-25; 9:31; 15:3) Samaria or Sebaste - capital in ancient & Herodian times (same place, name changed) JUDEA - at times a ...

Significantly, the country followed strictly orthodox Wahhabi Sunni Islam. Now, Saudi Arabia has mandated a much more modern ...

At Megiddo, he has concluded that there was no united Israelite kingdom under David ... Zertal has gathered friends and students to map the hills and desert on the Jordan River’s west bank ...

“For several reasons, including how literacy became more widespread towards the end of the First Temple period, we have many more findings from the Kingdom of Judah compared to the Kingdom of ...

and the Southern Kingdom of Judah was on its way to getting absorbed into the Babylonian empire. It’s a time of massive political reform and is widely considered one of the most disastrous times ...