For centuries, Christian devotees visited a tomb, believing it to belong to an apocryphal Biblical figure. A new study posits ...

Salome's salacious sexuality is famous in opera. But its potrayal of Jewishness is just as layered and opaque as its ...

Situated on the south slope of the Acropolis, the Herod Atticus Odeon was named after Tiberius Claudius Herod Atticus, a wealthy Athenian who sponsored the building of this ancient outdoor ...

The Roman Senate appointed Herod "king of the Jews" in approximately 40 BC. According to the ancient Jewish historian Falavius Josephus, Herod died in 4 BC. Israel's Haaretz newspaper said on its ...

Kleinhaus, 46, drew widespread criticism this week over his social media posts over the past two years about Jewish people and Israel — criticism that came while he and his family are being ...

Finding King Herod’s Tomb After a 35-year search, an Israeli archaeologist is certain he has solved the mystery of the biblical figure’s final resting place ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Pope Leo XIV met with representatives of Christian ...

RTVE, which courted controversy with its openly anti-Israel stance during its coverage of the competition, reportedly harbours ‘doubts’ about the validity of the public vote. May 19, 2025 10: ...

Two New York productions of Strauss’s opera reposition its necrophiliac protagonist as a perverse instrument of justice.

On a day in April, not a single history buff roamed between the columns of the palace of Herod Antipas, tetrarch of Galilee; no one was strolling through what remains of the Byzantine cathedral ...

Pope Leo XIV said Monday that Jewish-Christian dialogue must continue even when facing challenges and disagreements, during a special audience at the Vatican with religious representatives ...