Jerusalem’s ancient water system was not only about finding a spring. It was about controlling what happened when the water came too quickly and when the rain failed to arrive at all. A new study has dated a large dam near the Siloam Pool to roughly 805–795 BCE, during the period when the kingdom of […]

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JD Hall discusses the name of Jesus, asserting that He was named Ἰησοῦς in Greek, not Yeshua in Hebrew. The Gospel of Matthew records His name in Greek, supporting the idea that He was known by this name in a multilingual first-century Palestine.