Judas Iscariot received 30 silver coins to betray Jesus and put him in the hands of Caiaphas, or in today's money, around ...

How can we sure Jesus existed? Who did he think he was? What were his intentions? A look at what we know about what happened ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Tens of thousands of people gathered at the holiest Jewish prayer site in Jerusalem on Tuesday for the traditional priestly blessing prayer.

During the ceremony, the young man holds up posters for two captives still in the Strip, Segev Kalfon and Alon Ohel, as the massive crowd recites the prayer for the hostages ...

The Haggadah says that we celebrate Passover as if we, today, were there. And yet after biblical times, early in the Talmudic era, the rabbis imagined a human hero at the Red Sea: Nachshon ben ...

Wearing white overalls and red fez hats, dozens of Samaritan men slaughtered sheep for Passover Friday as prayers in ancient Hebrew echoed across Mount Gerizim in the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

One account, written in the mid-second century or later, and not included in the New Testament, even claimed that Jesus’ crucifixion was not ordered by Pilate. Instead, it blamed Herod Antipas, the ...

How can these discoveries be reconciled with the widespread view that the post-Temple remnant of Jews in the Holy Land was ...