What does the Bible say about who belongs in the ‘promised land’? A biblical scholar explains
What the Bible and history tell us about the claim that God gave the land of Israel to Abraham and his descendants.
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Why Was Zora Neale Hurston So Obsessed With the Biblical Villain Herod the Great?
Hurston believed that history had shortchanged Herod, best known as the biblical villain who murders Bethlehem’s children in his quest to kill the infant Jesus, and she would dedicate her final ...