During the reign of Emperor Hadrian, two Jewish outlaws stood trial for a series of crimes including the freeing of slaves ...

A coin minted by Jewish rebels just before the destruction of the Second Temple – an event Jesus predicted in the Gospels – has been unearthed in Jerusalem. The 2,000-year-old artifact was found at ...

As the insurgency in Iraq continues and questions about its outcome surface, one might look for possible historical parallels–and one of the most successful insurgencies against a colonial power in ...

In 2014, a researcher realized that the longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judaean Desert was not what it seemed. The newly translated scroll reveals extraordinary details of a judicial hearing ...

I'm delighted to report that my Hoover colleague (and emeritus professor at Cornell), Barry Strauss, will be guest-blogging this week about this new book of his. Here's the publisher's summary: A new ...

A four-line ancient Aramaic inscription, possibly inked by Jewish rebels from the Bar Kochba Revolt against the Romans in the 2nd century CE, has been discovered in a cave in the Judean Desert, two ...

Many people have felt compelled to watch videos of the Hamas attack on October 7th. But not me; I simply cannot. Yet despite doing my best to avert my eyes, I’ve stumbled across multiple descriptions ...

In December 1947, shortly after the United Nations voted to give the Jewish people a state of their own in the soon-to-be-former British Mandate of Palestine, a symbolic act took place in Italy. The ...

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