Explore the fascinating narrative of forgery and tax evasion in ancient Rome through the discovery of a remarkable Greek ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

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 ...

New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in ...

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.

The world of the Roman Empire was not just one of legions, emperors, and conquests — it was also a world of legal disputes, ...

The papyrus details the prosecution of two main defendants: Gadalias, a notary’s son and something of an ancient Roman “bad ...

Rather, Jesus the historical figure likely conversed in Aramaic, the native language of Judeah, the region in the Roman Empire where scholars ... t exist during the time he lived — “J ...