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In this second excerpt from Dr. David Neiman's lecture series, "The Church and The Jews", Dr. Neiman discusses the early Jewish diaspora communities that existed before the advent of Christianity.

Dr. Neiman discusses the lives and experience of the Jews under Persian emperor Cyrus the Great and the subsequent rebuilding of their Temple in Judah.

In this fourth excerpt from Dr. David Neiman's lecture series, "The Church and The Jews", Dr. Neiman describes the great freedoms and privileges that the diaspora Jews of the Persian Empire enjoyed.

The Cult of Mithras was a thriving religion in the Roman Empire. But by the 5th century....it was gone. What do we know about the Cult of Mithras? And what was its relationship with Christianity? Twitter: @andrewmarkhenry...

Dr. David Neiman details the Biblical events that, he believes, corresponds to Egyptian historical events.

Pharaoh Akhenaten is often credited with being the first monotheist. But according to Dr. David Neiman, his actions were motivated not by religious conviction, but by political necessity.

Dr. Neiman describes the political intrigue surrounding a palace scribe of Akhenaten, Haremhab, a man who became close to the deceased Pharaoh's widow, and after the death of Tutankhamun, becomes Pharaoh himself...

Discovered in 1897, the letters of Tel El Amarna shed light on the political tensions that existed between Egypt, Canaan and Amurru during the period known as the Amarna Age. King Labayu of Shechem pleads...

How did Egyptologists decipher hieroglyphics? Jean-Francois Champollion started working on decoding the ancient Egyptian writing when he was 9 years old at the end of the eighteenth century. When...

Hatshepsut leads a regency council to set the date for the coronation of Thutmose III. After four years of consultations with the oracles, the priests announce that Hatshepsut is to be Pharoah of...