As long as Jews have been Jews, from God’s call to Abraham in Genesis chapter 12, our identity has been measured by way of ...

The Prophet Micah lived in the eighth century before Christ, and he lived in the declining years of the Davidic dynasty. A ...

Babylon came to stand for evil. In some ways, they out-”evi”l-ed Sodom and Gomorrah, because those two were merely ...

Rioters outside Park East synagogue in New York recently chanted genocidal screeds such as “There is only one solution: intifada revolution” and “we don’t want no two states, we want all of it.” But ...

What we know about Babylonia is mostly derived from clay tablets. Tens of thousands of these cuneiform texts have been found in the last century and for some periods these tell us a great deal about ...

Chaldea was an ancient region located in the southern part of Mesopotamia, in what is now modern-day Iraq. It was one of the oldest and most important centers of civilization in the ancient Near East.

Next time you find yourself swaying along to Bob Marley’s Exodus, pay attention to the lyrics. “We know where we’re going. We know where we’re from. We leaving Babylon. We going to our Father’s Land.” ...

Cyrus went down in history as one of the most benevolent conquerors of all time, allowing his subjects to live—and worship—as they pleased. Engraving of Cyrus the Great. Cyrus governed with singular ...

Most days, in the heart of Pennsylvania’s Bible Belt, the old sanctuary at Christ Lutheran Church sits empty. Decades ago, it was home to a congregation of 3,000 people. By the late 1990s, that number ...

The LORD showed me, and there were two baskets of figs set before the temple of the LORD, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried way captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and ...

This is Dutch artist Jacob van Loo’s depiction of Judean Gov. Zerubbabel showing King Cyrus the Great of Babylon his plan to rebuild Jerusalem. Van Loo lived from 1614-70. (Courtesy Photo) The ...