the roman empire and judea The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these were governed as provinces.

As the Bible tells it, 2,021 years ago a child named Jesus was born in a little-known town on the edge of the Roman Empire and was killed 33 years later.

Two Roman crucifixion nails were found in an ossuary of the burial cave, one inside the box and one on the floor beside the ...

Within four centuries of Jesus’ death, Christianity was the official religion of the Roman Empire, as Weiss observes in her introduction to the podcast. By then, Christianity had 30 million ...

To understand how the Roman authorities would have treated a dissident like Jesus, Andrade turned to a historical account of a trial that occurred 30 years after Jesus.

The Roman Empire has its parallels in contemporary American life, and over the years a number of writers in America have noted the similarities. In a September 1909 review of Social Life at Rome ...