Few ancient sites in the Holy Land have ignited the imagination like the lost tombs of the Maccabees, the family that led a Jewish rebel army to victory against Seleucid religious repression in the ...

It is common today for Christians of all stripes to say that the period in the Bible that most closely parallels our own time is that of Sodom and Gomorrah. The late convert to Catholicism Judge ...

Editor’s Note: Laura Bernardini is director of coverage in CNN’s Washington Bureau. The views expressed in this column belong to Bernardini. My reading has slowed to a crawl again. It takes me 10 ...

When we first started the band we just picked books off shelves, flicked through pages and pointed to names. We picked up a Bible, found Maccabees and thought it was a good band name. We didn't know ...