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Period of ancient Rome following the Republic
The name “Palestine” has ancient literary roots — Herodotus used Palaistine in the 5th century BCE to describe a district of Syria (earliest incontrovertible attestation) . The term functioned for mil...
Claims to outlaw “pagan holidays” have historically come from state-backed Christianizing drives (e.g., Theodosius I’s late‑4th‑century decrees that abolished remaining pagan holidays in the Roman Emp...
Palestinian genetic diversity today reflects long-standing local continuity in the Southern Levant combined with layered inputs from migrations, conquests, and episodic gene flow rather than wholesale...
The Nazareth Inscription is a Roman-period marble slab bearing a Greek imperial rescript that warns capital punishment for anyone who disturbs tombs or moves sepulchral stones; it entered scholarship ...
New Testament passages connect the Jerusalem Temple to both near-term judgment (Jesus predicts its destruction in Matthew 24:1–2) and to later eschatological crisis (Paul’s “man of lawlessness” will “...
The First Council of Nicaea did not formally fix the biblical canon, so it ; that claim is a persistent myth rooted in later medieval and Enlightenment retellings. Nicaea’s clear, documented legacies ...