New research on the longest Greek papyrus from the Judean Desert ever discovered offers unprecedented insights into life in ...

The main defendants, Gadalias and Saulos, stood accused of corrupt dealings, including falsified documents and fictitious ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Judea apart from the trial of Jesus." In the 1950s, an ancient papyrus ...

A rediscovered Greek papyrus details a Roman court case in Iudaea involving tax fraud, forgery, and possible rebellion on the ...

"This is the best-documented Roman court case from Iudaea apart from the trial of Jesus," said one researcher.

Per the study, the papyrus was likely written on the “eve of the Bar Kokhba Revolt,” a second-century Jewish uprising against Roman rule. The Roman Empire had colonized Judea—the southern ...

Scholars from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the University of Vienna and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unveiled ...

The coin from the period of the Bar Kochba revolt is one of only four ever discovered in the Old City of Jerusalem. JERUSALEM (JTA) — A rare bronze coin from the period of the Bar Kochba revolt ...

The one thing that does happen in the second revolt... is [that] the self-consciously apocalyptic and messianic identity of Bar Kochba forces the issue for the Christian tradition. It appears that ...