Genealogy and Jewish Heritage Archives

Think about that. A Harlot, a Canaanite and a liar. You wouldn’t think she would have much chance of making the list, but there she is.

Many people know King Herod as the villain of Christmas. What do we know about this tyrant from history?

For generations the promises were repeated—from father to son, from mother to daughter, from family to family, from the older to the younger, and Jewish children were taught to pray for the Messiah’s appearance. By the time you get to the first century, you have all these centuries of expectation built up.

The objection is vigorously urged that Herod was a rex socius — an allied king, and that all taxes in his dominion must, therefore, have been levied by himself.

Out of the Jewish leadership of Jesus’ day had risen teachers of the law who did not know what the law meant.

She was limited to the 40 acres of the Temple courts. But what kind of life did she lead?

In the spring of 1947 an Arab shepherd chanced upon a cave in the hills overlooking the northwestern shore of the Dead Sea that contained what has been called "the greatest manuscript discovery of modern times."

An almost forgotten Jewish sect until the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Essenes were a small, separatist group that grew out of the conflicts of the Maccabean age.

There are about 13 recognized books in what is known as the Apocrypha. During the years of growth the Greek culture enjoyed in Palestine, many books were written by the Jews.

Leprosy was the scourge of the ancient world. Nothing evoked more fear, more dread, or more revulsion than the sight of these walking dead.

Missing Jesus and His salvation is seen most vividly in the story of Christmas.

The Septuagint (LXX) was the first translation of the Hebrew Bible and was made in the third century B.C. by Jewish scribes.