Complex houses a new hotel and an active archeological site where visitors can have a first-century Galilee experience in the 21st century. Magdala Hotel and archeological park. Photo courtesy of ...

Sepphoris was a city that existed already in Hellenistic times, first, second century BCE. But it was really developed by Herod's son Antipas, when he went there in 4 or 3 before the Common Era ...

Recent discussions of Jesus' social class try to locate him within the social structures of Mediterranean society generally, or Galilean society, in the first century.

Many people shared the name. Christ’s given name, commonly Romanized as Yeshua , was quite common in first-century Galilee. ( Jesus comes from the transliteration of Yeshua into Greek and then ...

Historian Tom McCollough claims Khirbet Qana, not Kafr Kanna, is the location of Jesus' first miracle, supported by archaeological evidence of ancient veneration at the site.