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The association between "bloody Herod" and his contemporary, "blind Hillel," is disputed in almost all the literature dedicated to the greatest king of Judea and the "wisest leader of the Sanhedrin," but it will become evident in what follows

MacMullen, Dunham Professor Emeritus of History and Classics and one of the greatest Roman historians of his age, died on Nov. 28. He was 94.

Philo, Herod, Paul, and the Many Gods of Ancient Jewish “Monotheism” - Volume 115 Issue 1

An exhibition at the Lyman Allyn Art Museum traces the lives and work of two New London siblings who had careers in a lost art form.

If we need a date when the West started to go seriously wrong, let’s start with Rome in the early 5th century... In 2020, we saw the enshrinement of techno-feudalism – one of the overarching themes of my latest book, Raging Twenties. In lightning speed, the techno-feudalism virus is metastasizing into an even more lethal, wilderness of mirrors variant, where cancel culture is enforced by Big Tech all across the spectrum, science is routinely debased as fake news in social media, and the av...

In lightning speed, the techno-feudalism virus is metastasizing into an even more lethal, wilderness of mirrors variant, where cancel culture is enforced by Big Tech all across the spectrum, science is routinely debased as fake news in social media, and the average citizen is discombobulated to the point of lobotomy. Giorgio Agamben has defined it as a new totalitarianism. Top political analyst Alastair Crooke has attempted a sharp breakdown of the broader configuration. Geopolitically, the H...

Is this the fall of Rome all over again? In a time when fewer than a third of US Millennials believe that it is ‘essential’ to live in a democracy, observers of American society are on the alert for portents of the Last Days. The storming of the US Capitol on January 6 was remarkable for its “fall-of-Rome” flavour.  Getty Images Save Share The scenes at the Capitol on January 6 were remarkable for all sorts of reasons, but a distinctive fall-of-Rome flavour was one of...

No, Really, Are We Rome? Cullen Murphy © Provided by The Atlantic Illustration by Nicolás Ortega; Joseph-Noël Sylvestre, The Sack of Rome in 410 by the Vandals (1890). Fine Art Images / Getty. This article was published online on March 11, 2021. The scenes at the Capitol on January 6 were remarkable for all sorts of reasons, but a distinctive fall-of-Rome flavor was one of them, and it was hard to miss. Photographs of the Capitol’s debris-strewn marble portico might have ...

by Tom Holland, Basic Books, 2019. 624 Pages.  A #1 Christian church history book on Amazon. The only recorded encounter of Jesus with Greeks was shortly before His crucifixion. As John 12:20, 21 tells us, some Greeks asked through Philip to see Jesus. We are not told why or what they asked Him, but verses 23-25 says, “Jesus replied, ‘The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single ...