Babylon is presented in Scripture as far more than a powerful ancient city. It functions as a...
Ancient Near East
The birth of Christ does not occur in a neutral world. Scripture presents human history as unfolding...
Within the religious world of the Ancient Near East, the boundary between divine and human authority was...
The story of Esther and Haman, as recorded in the Book of Esther, stands as one of...
For centuries, Christians have pictured Mary and Joseph wandering through Bethlehem as an innkeeper turns them away,...
The genealogies of Jesus in Matthew and Luke have long drawn attention because Matthew includes Jeconiah in...
Deuteronomy ends with a mystery. Moses dies on Mount Nebo, and God Himself buries him in a...
The biblical worldview presents a supernatural realm far richer than the simplified categories that became common in...
Every year, claims circulate that Christmas is nothing more than a baptized pagan festival. These arguments usually...
Few modern books have caused as much confusion about Christian history as Alexander Hislop’s The Two Babylons. First...