I believe in miracles too, in my way, reconciling rationalism and inklings of a preternatural reality by means of “radical ...

Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill launches his four-week overview of the Bible's 66 books, starting from the ...

two books of the Maccabees,” reads the Council of Florence’s Old Testament list. (Emphasis added by Check Your Fact.) St.

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Newark Advocate Faith Works columnist Jeff Gill explains why he finds the ancient collection of books that make up the Bible fascinating.

It has endured floods, snowstorms and a lightning strike, standing as a testament to resilience and history. The Skipinnish Oak in Scotland, UK is a 400-year-old giant, standing proudly in ...

A remarkable 1,000-year-old artefact has been discovered at the ... engraved with city names from Mecca to Toledo, reveals the history of science and navigation in the Islamic world.

In a statement, the Historical’s board chair, Agnes Hsu-Tang, said Wilson’s book had also “redefined the concept of a biography,” telling “a more encompassing history about America than ...

For decades, scholars have widely held the view that after Emperor Constantine gave Christianity legal status at the beginning of the 4th century CE, the Jewish people were terribly oppressed.

Stein, the distinguished professor of history and the Viterbi Family Chair in Mediterranean Jewish Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, shared the detail in her book, “Family Papers: A ...

I then asked the panel to fine-tune the list by re-ordering the titles from 1 to 100, to reflect their own personal preferences and thus to establish which books ... in recent history, a gripping ...