Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...
The finding reveals more about criminal cases from the time and ... the Roman Empire. "This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus," study co-author ...
"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...
New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in ...
By far the mightiest force at the time shaping life in Galilee was the Roman Empire, which had subjugated Palestine some 60 years before Jesus’ birth. Almost all Jews chafed under Rome’s ...
The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...
The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...
A scholar of medieval Christianity explores the history of Christians who spoke out, unafraid to risk official censure or ...
Jesus, the lord and saviour would have gone by Yeshua or Yeshu, which were the two of the most common names in Galilee at the time.