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.

And the people were urged to have “faith” in their “Lord,” the emperor, who would preserve peace and increase wealth. “In the Roman imperial world, the ‘gospel’ was the good news of Caesar’s having ...

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.

The Last Days of Jesus looks at some new theories regards his death. The Last Days of Jesus is a 2-hour special on PBS taking a fascinating look at the Roman politics that might well have led to ...

American Bible scholar claims ancient 'confessions' prove story of Jesus Christ was entirely fabricated by Roman aristocrats. Joseph Atwill says Romans 'used Christ as propaganda to pacify subjects' ...

Christianity is a baseless religion that was designed by the Roman empire to justify slavery and pacify the citizens, according to controversial Biblical scholar Joseph Atwill. In a blog on his ...

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 ...

When Irene Soto Marín, an assistant professor of Roman history at Harvard, goes on a first date with a man, one of two things usually happens: They’ll either start mansplaining facts about the ...