A Roman slave girl in ancient Gaul, Blandine endured torture, lions and scorn to bear witness to Christ — and became a pillar ...

For the past several weeks, we looked at outstanding moments in the history of the Christian church. The history and ...

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For many years, Bible versions that contain only the New Testament and Psalms have been available on the market.

The service always includes one or more psalms. These ancient prayers, taken from the Old Testament, reflect the full range ...

On the other side are the so-called biblical minimalists, who argue that the Old Testament is literary ... from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, even to the border of Egypt.” ...

I’m an Old Testament scholar who cares about God ... Yahweh condemns the Arameans for cruelty against Gilead, the Philistines and Phoenicians for human trafficking, the Edomites for unchecked ...

and fiercely fought against the Israelites throughout the era of the Old Testament. If this is the origin of the word “Palestine,” it’s pretty ironic how it’s a name made up by European invaders… ...

The Canaanites were the original inhabitants of the Levant and were descended from Noah's grandson Canaan, according to the Old Testament. Omer Nitzan, Ziv's sister, told the IAA that her family ...

In a study published in the Scandinavian Journal of the Old Testament, researcher Sabine ... lie “east of the Elah Valley” — closer to Philistine Gath — and may derive its name from ...

This is actually the first study of DNA recovered from an ancient Philistine cemetery, as scientists wanted to find the roots of the infamous people of the Hebrew Bible, according to a report in ...