Trump and his surrogates are keenly aware of their primary constituency, and this is why Ben Carson took to Fox News before the caucus to make yet another biblical comparison. Speaking with Neil ...

“The Tel Dan Stele is one of the most significant discoveries made in biblical archaeology. Until its discovery, some academics questioned the validity of King David as a historical figure. For the ...

An archaeologist claims the Bible’s King David could’ve ruled over a large kingdom, complete with roads connecting fortified cities around Jerusalem. Yosef Garfinkel, a professor at the Institute of ...

I am squinting through a metal grate at the outline of a stone wall a dozen feet below me. This wall is the remains of what definitely is or possibly might be or is laughably unlikely to be the palace ...

It is fascinating to consider that King David was raised as a shepherd, was the great-grandson of Ruth, and became the greatest king of the Old Testament and an ancestor to the greatest king of the ...

Once, the House of David seemed like a folk tale. Now, the rocks testify to its historic significance. The Bible describes David as a man after God’s heart and a king who reigned for 40 years, firmly ...

The substantial historicity of the united monarchy of Judah — the reigns of King Saul around 1037–1010 B.C., King David around 1010–970 B.C. and King Solomon around 970–931 B.C. — was widely accepted ...

In the Hebrew Bible, King David is famous for slaying the Philistine giant Goliath and expanding Israel into a large kingdom centered in Jerusalem. However, archaeological evidence for King David is ...

So King David of Israel lives on in the popular imagination as the embodiment of the triumphant underdog. But the story of David and Goliath, Jonathan Kirsch suggests in his new biography, "King David ...

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Remembered for defending the bodies of her sacrificed sons, Rizpah is one of the most tragic figures in the Bible. Rizpah, King Saul's concubine, 1866. Rizpah stopping the birds and beasts devouring ...