The scroll, found in the Judean desert, has been painstakingly translated to reveal a record of a Roman court case.

The volcanic slab, inscribed with Ancient Greek, may rewrite what we know about the Roman Empire ... of Jesus was discovered in the ancient heart of Jerusalem, frozen in time for nearly 3,000 ...

The finding reveals more about criminal cases from the time and ... against the Roman Empire. "This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judaea apart from the trial of Jesus," study ...

According to the Bible, this happened when Jesus entered Jerusalem for the last time before his crucifixion ... According to the map, Roman soldiers took Jesus to the House of Caiaphas, which ...

The longest Greek papyrus ever found in the Judean Desert, comprising over 133 lines of text, has been published for the first time ... in this part of the Roman Empire," says Dr. Dolganov.

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

despite English not being a language of the Judeah -- the region in the Roman Empire where Jesus and his disciples lived. There is a high possibility that Jesus conversed in Aramaic which could ...

Sometimes the most significant historical discoveries happen by accident. When Professor Hannah Cotton Paltiel volunteered to organize documents at the Israel Antiquities Authority’s scrolls ...

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 ...

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 ...

Harrington, S.J., a noted New Testament scholar, suggests that the probable recipients of this message are Gentiles of Jesus’ time ... traveling within the Roman Empire, they never left their ...

During the first millennium, as Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire ... Jesus, said to be the work of St. Luke—is housed in this sanctuary. “The first time she ...