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Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

After many hours of ritual chanting and praying, the priests of Baal fail in their efforts but Elijah’s God blasts the wood to bits with fire. Elijah then calls on the Israelites to slaughter ...