(RNS) Feeling increasingly alienated and even persecuted, some Christians are adopting a favorite image from Scripture -- that of the Babylonian captivity. (RNS) From the moment they set foot on North ...

Recently unveiled ancient clay tablets have provided scholars a rare glimpse into Jewish life during the Babylonian exile. Discovered by archaeologists two years ago, the tablets went on display to ...

The history of the Jewish people is one of glory, oppression, migration, persecution and survival. Perhaps the only explanation for this tenacity, a refusal to stay down against all odds, is that the ...

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion today drew a parallel between the declaration by the Persian King Cyrus permitting the Babylonian Jews to return to Palestine in the sixth century B. C. E. and the ...

JERUSALEM — A new exhibition of ancient clay tablets discovered in modern-day Iraq is shedding light for the first time on the daily life of Jews exiled to Babylon 2,500 years ago. The exhibition is ...

Cuneiform tablet documenting daily life of Judean exiles in Babylon. The only museum in the world, dedicated to the history of the Ancient Near East from a biblical perspective, has a new exhibition ...

Passover, the Jewish holiday that celebrates freedom from exile, evokes especially powerful memories this year for David Dror, a San Francisco filmmaker and Iraqi Jew. Dror was only 9 years old when ...

The newly religious rapper is enamored of Nebuchadnezzar, a king who burned down the first Jewish temple in 586 BCE. Last month, West released a gospel-infused album titled “Jesus is King,” on which ...