Archaeologists in Israel have ... 586 B.C.) of ancient Israel, suggesting ritual and cultic practices took place close to the First Temple — the first Jewish temple, built by King Solomon ...

Researchers Find Evidence of an Ancient Structure Used for Rituals and Cult Practices During First Temple Period ...

In a divided world, sacred spaces like Al Aqsa and Babri Masjid, which have raised nationalistic fervour, should have endured ...

The significant archaeological breakthrough from the Byzantine period (5th-6th centuries CE) was found in southern Israel ... book of Kings (2:39) states that in the time of King Solomon it ...

You might think happiness is something fleeting that you can't control, but if you want to be consistently happy in life, you ...

Americans do not have a king, but do not lack for guidance in the public invocation of religion. Abraham Lincoln showed the way in his famous reply to an interlocutor who claimed divine sanction for ...

No one can realistically be expected to know everything about the Palestinian Arab/Israeli conflict, yet there are recurring canards that one should be prepared to address with some level of knowledge ...

King David, on the other hand, addresses only one of his children in our haftarah, issuing a final set of directives to Solomon ... to fall in battle, these ancient episodes take on a deeper ...

The map, published on its Arabic-language social media account, depicts what it claims to be the ancient Kingdom ... biblical Kingdom of Israel established 3,000 years ago under King Saul and later ...

The First Temple period refers to King Solomon’s Temple, which ... Other children — some as young as seven or eight — have also picked up ancient relics. “Israel is a very small country, intensively ...

The Very Revd Dr Edward Dowler (Dean of Chichester) reflects on the Feast Day of ‘Candlemas’, when Jesus is presented at the temple by Joseph and Mary. This moment features a diverse range of people, ...