The animosity between Jews, Persians/Iranians and Muslims has not always been so. In fact, had it not been for the latter, ...

Alexander the Great and Cyrus the Great both share the role of featuring in important Jewish prophecies. What exactly do ...

An extensive Jewish quarter from the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria has been found near one of the world’s most ancient synagogues in Russia’s Taman Peninsula, north of the Black Sea.

530 BCE), and so the text must come from that time ... How did these various pieces come to be regarded as Scripture by Jewish and, later, Christian communities? There were no committees that ...

India's largest Jewish community, however, is the Bene Israel in Mumbai. Although their arrival in India is something of a mystery (some claim to have arrived in India in the 2nd century BCE ...

The Jewish presence in Rome itself dates back to at least the second century BCE. This discovery highlights how Jewish life ...