(RNS) — President Donald Trump began his second term in the White House with a bit of political map-making ... to the area as Judea and Samaria, biblical names for the ancient Israelite kingdoms ...

the capitals) by location on a map: see the long list of ... Samaria or Sebaste - capital in ancient & Herodian times (same place, name changed) JUDEA - at times a separate province; at other ...

The Kurds, around 40 million spread across the Middle East, are an ancient ... 2008 map he offered Abbas for a “two-state solution” that would have given the Palestinians over 95% of Judea ...

The ruins of an ancient Jewish ritual bath have been found near Rome – the oldest such discovery outside of the biblical ...

“No Roman mikva’ot (the Hebrew plural of mikveh) were previously known outside of ancient Judea, Galilee and Idumea (the ancient region located in modern-day Jordan), and it cannot but confirm ...