“One of the most certain facts of history is that Jesus was crucified on orders of the Roman prefect of Judea [Pontius Pilate],” scholar Bart Ehrman wrote, a line often cited because it captures an ...

The way the Roman Empire developed, was gradually to take over more and more territories in the eastern Mediterranean. Some of these were governed as provinces. You can imagine the Roman Empire ...

'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 ...

Having grown up in the years after Nostra Aetate – the Vatican document rejecting the traditional accusation that the Jews were responsible for the death of Jesus – I assumed it was a settled issue.

“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 ...

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 ...