These gods were a bit like humans, but they lived forever and were much more powerful. They felt human emotions, like love, anger and jealousy, and they did not always behave themselves.

Purim, therefore, is the prototype for Jewish survival during exile. The Divine Providence hidden in apparently random events ...

She guided the military leaders through a God-given strategy to defeat the Canaanites not through overwhelming might, but through wise use of a small armed force to prove the faithfulness of God ...

Rosie the Riveter is one of the most iconic images in pop culture history. For 30 years, Geraldine Hoff Doyle was believed to be the inspiration for Rosie the Riveter. An investigation in the ...

In his teaching, Jesus often quoted the Jewish Scriptures; after his death, his followers turned to them for clues to the meaning of his life and message. Biblical scholar Mark Hamilton discusses ...

In ancient Greece, wealthy men often gathered for decadent banquets called symposia. Not only an occasion for thinking and philosophizing, the symposium was also a place for enjoying women, wine ...

An extremely rare cycle of paintings depicting a raucous ritual involving the god of wine has been unearthed in Pompeii, the ancient Roman city buried by volcanic ash and lava in A.D. 79 ...