Ruthlessly lavish in his lifetime and a villain of Jewish ... of his tomb outside Jerusalem.Hebrew University archeologists on Tuesday announced the find of the first-century BCE monarch’s ...

extensive history of the Jewish people ... from Biblical days coming down to his own time. Josephus wrote mostly at the end of the first century ... around the year 100, just a few years before ...

In the first century of our era there were many sects and schools in Jewish society. We hear about the Essenes, of course, the Jews of Qumran, the Dead Sea Scrolls, who separated themselves from ...