This thrilling production of Saul takes Handel’s dramatisation of the Bible’s first Book of Samuel and paints it in pictures ...

In 1901 the Jewish National Fund was established with the purpose of reclaiming the ancestral homeland of the Jews (Israel/Palestine). This was done by PURCHASING LAND from the Turkish rulers ...

For centuries, the ancient Philistines have been a prominent, yet enigmatic, group in historical accounts, particularly in ...

“Said Rabbi Yehoshua: Great is peace, because when the Jews stood and said ‘Everything that Hashem has spoken, we will do and ...

Amos predicted dire punishment for the Philistines, who had taken “captive whole communities and sold them to Edom.” The Philistines had attacked the Israelites, enslaved and sold them to ...

Jesus threw moneychangers out of the Temple, “and said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves,” (Matthew 12:12-13). But that was ...

In The Coming of Civilization Ron Carter writes when Joshua (Moses’ successor) led the Hebrews into Canaan, they were forced to settle in the hills because enemies, notably the Philistines ...

Let’s start with some folks who had a reasonably successful run in Gaza: the Philistines. If we are going to bring back a failed government, let’s at least find someone almost as ...

which archaeologists have connected to the people known as Philistines in the Bible. The simpler burials at Tell Erani reflect a place with less wealth, and the authors wondered if it would have ...

There has never been a shortage of idiotic discussion among the ill-informed on Aspen’s City Council, but the meeting on Monday, Oct. 30, took the display of ignorance and stupidity to an entirely new ...