A valley south of Jerusalem called the Valley of Ben Hinnom is associated in the Hebrew Bible with death and atrocity, including human sacrifice. In the New Testament, this physical, earthly ...

Every Christmas, a relatively small town in the Palestinian West Bank comes center stage: Bethlehem. Jesus, according to some biblical sources, was born in this town some two millennia ago. Yet the ...

Students will study ancient Jerusalem starting from the prehistoric period through key historical phases such as the periods of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, the Christian Bible/New Testament ...