They journey to Bethlehem in response to a census that the Roman emperor Caesar Augustus required for all the Jewish people. Since Joseph was a descendant of King David, Bethlehem was the hometown ...

A group of Israeli researchers is in a years-long quest to produce wine identical to that consumed in ancient Israel ... of earth from the era when David and Solomon ruled over the Land of ...

Some scholars argue that the emphasis on Bethlehem as Jesus's birthplace arose from the desire to link him to an ancient Hebrew prophecy ... to be the city of King David. Professor Bond said ...