Judea

Hannah's question: what would Israel look like if it had stayed under Jewish rule for 2,000 years — and was antisemitism structural or circumstantial?

Two groups everyone has heard of, documented almost entirely by outsiders. What the sources really say about the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Fifteen hours of torch juggling, nonstop music, and a rain ritual the Torah never commanded — inside the Second Temple's wildest celebration.

The Bible's lists of ancient peoples are theological claims, not census records — and the Hittites are two entirely different peoples wearing one n...

Priest, general, defector, Roman pensioner — how one first-century author became the lens through which we see ancient Judaism.

Rome had no wine bottles — just giant buried jars, throwaway shipping pots, and a hill of 53 million smashed amphorae.