Was there really a Roman census at the time of Jesus' birth, or is this detail in the Gospel of Luke historically inaccurate?

The Roman Empire grew over a long period of time from basically a political unit in Italy to the entire Mediterranean basin, but it took a lot of time.... It really grew out of a number of different ...

Christianity spread across the Roman Empire through persecution, cultural adaptation, and the transformation of pagan beliefs ...

Papyri from the Roman Empire provide authentic insight into how Christians in antiquity imagined Joseph and Mary's ...

'Ecce Homo' (Behold the Man), by 19th-century painter Antonio Ciseri, depicts Pontius Pilate presenting Jesus to a crowd in Jerusalem. Tungsten/Galleria d'Arte Moderna via Wikimedia Commons It’s a ...

Ancient manuscripts detailing the events during the Roman Empire are believed to contain 'first hand' evidence about the life and death of Jesus Christ. The Annals, written by the Roman historian ...

“Driving of the Merchants From the Temple,” by Scarsellino (Wikimedia Commons) I am sitting at a desk in the City of London, and as I look up and out through the window in front of me, I see one of ...

And it was under his kingship that post-Biblical Israel really rose to its political and material heights in the early days of the Roman Empire. Herod was a successful client king, which meant that as ...