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Herodotus used a Greek form Palaistínē (Παλαιστίνη) to describe a district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egypt; classical reference works and regional histories identify his usage as the earliest cle...
Most historians and New Testament scholars conclude that who lived in first‑century Judea, though they disagree sharply about the details of his life and the theological claims made about him; this co...
The modern State of Israel was named "Israel" rather than "Judea" for reasons that combine ancient usage, evolving self-identity, and deliberate political choice during the state's founding: "Judea" i...
Benito Mussolini moved from socialist activism to founding Italian Fascism through a sequence of public breaks over World War I, shifting from party-aligned internationalism to aggressive Italian nati...
The territory commonly called Palestine has been governed at different times by local kingdoms and a long succession of empires: ancient Israelite and Philistine polities, Assyrian and Babylonian conq...
Iron Age religion was not a single, uniform system but a patchwork of regional practices ranging from polytheistic pantheons and ritual specialists in Europe to localized mortuary rites and plant-base...
Viriato, in Portuguese usage, is primarily the proper name of the legendary Lusitanian leader Viriathus and functions as a cultural symbol of resistance and nationhood in Portugal; as a given name it ...
Classical Greek sources use the toponym Παλαιστῑ́νη (Palaistínē) and adjectival forms derived from it (e.g., Palaistinós) to designate a coastal and inland district of Syria between Phoenicia and Egyp...
Pontius Pilate, as the Roman prefect of Judaea (c. 26–36 CE), was the only official with authority to order crucifixion in Roman provinces; multiple modern scholars and reference works say Pilate “gav...
Ancient Druids were a priestly and learned class among the Celtic peoples; classical authors and some recent archaeology link certain Druids or their societies to ritual killings, including at least o...
Ancient Egyptian inscriptions record a people or group written as P-r-s-t (commonly vocalized Peleset) in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age, and Assyrian cuneiform records later use forms like Pa...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church preserves a broader biblical corpus than most Western churches because its Christianity took root early, developed in a distinct cultural and textual orbit, and ...
The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo canon contains about 81 books (46 OT, 35 NT) and retains several works absent from most Septuagint-based traditions, notably 1 Enoch and Jubilees, because its Ge’ez Bib...
Historical documentation for Jesus’ life after the crucifixion is extremely limited and primarily theological rather than strictly historical. Contemporary claims and archaeological findings occasiona...
The Roman emperor Hadrian or Roman authorities after the Bar Kokhba revolt reorganized the province of Judaea and used forms of the name Palaestina in the 2nd century CE, a change that has been read b...
The Bible presents "Jews" variably as a lineage, a religious community, and a political people: the descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob (Israel), later commonly called Yehudi/Jew in reference to ...
Claims of “giant” human skeletons fall into three buckets: sensational nineteenth‑ and early twentieth‑century newspaper reports and amateur finds that are poorly documented or disproven (often involv...
Early Church Fathers read Matthew 24 primarily as a prophecy about the imminent judgment on Jerusalem and the Temple—an event they linked to the Roman destruction of 70 CE—while treating longer‑range ...
The Massacre of the Innocents—Matthew’s account of Herod ordering Bethlehem’s infants killed—has been a resilient cultural motif from the medieval church to contemporary art, used as devotional commem...
The Council of Nicaea defined the Nicene Creed and settled issues like Easter’s dating but did not publish or fix a universal biblical canon; surviving Nicaean canons address Arianism and church order...