A crucial investigation into the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and its relationship to Platonic philosophy and Hellenistic Judaism, it included ...

For centuries, the people of Judaea had seen many foreign dynasts claim hegemony over them; the Greeks were but the latest.

Amid all of this, I’ve been interested in hearing Jewish voices speaking about the administration’s apparent use of Jewish people and their pain to carry out its illiberal goals — and the ...

Like many of his contemporaries - including Jesus - the gospel author Luke was deeply familiar with narratives in the Hebrew ...

Imbuing his work with a volatile mix of tenderness, aggression, sophistication, and obscenity, the Roman poet left a record ...

At first glance, it looked like just another rocky heap—not exactly headline material. But as archaeologists dug deeper, they found something far more impressive: a grand Hellenistic-era structure, ...

The Greeks of Cappadocia, in central-eastern Anatolia, created their own flourishing culture in ancient times that thrived ...

"The knowledge which Christ has of God has that quality of direct vision which Hellenistic mystics claimed--falsely in the Evangelist's view--and which for Jewish thinkers was reserved for the ...