Virtually every spring, they would launch a new military campaign, so each surviving soldier was expected to fight in many different wars throughout their careers. But as the ancient texts analyzed by ...

Ancient Warriors is a 1994 20-part documentary series from the Discovery Channel. Each half-hour episode looks at a major fighting people or force and charts the reasons for their rise to dominance ...

Of all the abductions, this one is different.

This week’s Torah portion describes our exile in Egypt. According to the text, we know that Pharaoh enslaved us and put us to work building the treasury cities of Pithom and Raamses (Shemot 1:11). The ...

Mobley, an Old Testament scholar who has taught at Harvard, Union Theological Seminary and Andover Newton Theological School, sets out to reclaim the raw adventure stories in "the heroic tradition of ...

This article originally appeared on Haaretz, and was reprinted here with permission. Sign up here to get Haaretz’s free Daily Brief newsletter delivered to your inbox. Israeli archaeologists are ...