Archaeologists conducting an ongoing excavation on Jerusalem's Mount Zion have found evidence that appears to be a record of a major biblical event -- the Babylonian conquest and sack of the city ...

The nearly 70 years of popes residing in Avignon, sometimes referred to as the “Babylonian captivity of the papacy,” was marked by significant influence of the French monarchs upon the ...

Critics, like the poet Petrarch, called it the "Babylonian Captivity" of the Church. The papal court in Avignon became known for its wealth, heavy taxes and distance from Rome's traditions.

We can track it back to the 16th century and none other than Martin Luther. He used the phrase in his book “The Babylonian Captivity of the Church” (1520) in which he responded to arguments of ...

The exile of which Peter spoke did not mean that the believers lacked belonging but that they had a different belonging: to “a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (2:9).

Ezekiel is thought to have written it in response to his own and his nation’s experience of exile from Jerusalem. Ezekiel, himself a member of the religious elite, was taken into the Babylonian ...

Finkel said the account of the flood and the ark was probably passed along to the Jews during their Babylonian exile in the 6th century B.C. and served as the basis for the Genesis story.

And it leads not to a desire to replace the self-righteous Christian Right with an equally self-righteous Christian Left, but to a renewed commitment to church-state separation — on religious as ...

Then again, the Babylonian captivity didn’t last forever, and after 70 years the Jews returned to Israel, transformed, and in some ways stronger than ever. KRE/AMB END GIBSON ...