John Adams’ Nativity oratorio ‘El Nino’ gets colourful staging at the NYC Met
New York AP The children crumple and fall to the stage, victims of King Herod’s assassins. Then the Virgin Mary, in a voice brimming with anguish and outrage, memorialises the student protesters who were massacred by Mexican armed forces in 1968. This is El Nino, a retelling of the birth and early life of Jesus through a […]
The Interview: Bruce Chilton on his new book plumbing the role the Herods had in forming early Jewish, Christian views
YONAT SHIMRON, of Religion News Service, speaks with academic Bruce Chilton about the dynastic royal family that governed Judea during the time of Christ…
Archaeologists reconstruct floor of Second Temple in Jerusalem
The likely design of the geometrically-interesting floor of the Second Temple has been reconstructed by archaeologists in Jerusalem. Using original fragments dating from the time of King Herod about 2,000 years ago, experts have painstakingly reconstructed the floor of the Temple which was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD following a Jewish rebellion. Archaeologists […]