Anyone who has ever worked in a school knows that the last few weeks of the year are the craziest and busiest weeks of the entire year. The kids are ready for summer, the adults are ready for summer, ...

Sunday, we will read some of the prayers that Jesus offered up to His Father. Here is part of the prayer of Jesus just before he is betrayed and crucified, Jesus prays for His followers: "That they ...

After an earthquake opened the doors of the prison Paul and Silas were in, their jailer asked what he needed to do to be ...

Both Moses and Jesus were born into adversity. Pharaoh had all the babies killed at the time of Moses’s birth. Yet Moses lived — in Pharaoh’s own household! Herod, at the time of Jesus’s birth, had ...

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 ...

Biblical names never go out of style – they've been among the most popular names for centuries. Here are some perennial favorites, and some you may not be familiar with.

In any case, if we assume that such European folk-tale types apply straightforwardly to Herod — “that fox” — we will be leading ourselves astray. There is no evidence in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament ...

After the success of “The Chosen,” Amazon and Netflix are converting Bible stories into films and ... the Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins as King Herod. “House of David” is among the first ...

The Harlem Renaissance author spent her last years writing about the ancient king. Six decades after her death, her unfinished novel has finally been published for the first time Ellen Wexler ...

(The Herod in the Bible who beheads John the Baptist to please his stepdaughter Salome and who hands Jesus over to Pontius Pilate was Herod Antipas, Herod the Great’s son. He’s the bad Herod.) ...

Hurston, whose father was a minister, had long been interested in liberating Jewish history from the Bible, which she felt ... of their priestly caste. Herod (73-4 B.C.), a hardened warrior ...

With County Judge Neal Franklin using Herod’s son Landon’s Bible, the new Precinct 3 commissioner was sworn in by County Court-at-Law 3 Judge Clay White. Herod’s family, and friends filed ...