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From their capital at Hattusa in central Anatolia, the Hittites (c. 1600–1178 BC) ruled an empire that rivalled Egypt. The Bible knows them …

From Joseph’s rise in Pharaoh’s court to Moses’ birth and the Exodus, Israel lived in Egypt for 430 years (Exod 12:40), growing from seventy…

About 966 BC, in the fourth year of his reign, Solomon began to build the first Temple on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem. Seven years later it wa…

On Solomon’s death in 930 BC his son Rehoboam refused the people’s plea to lighten his father’s yoke. Ten tribes broke away under Jeroboam, …

Solomon builds the Temple. The kingdom splits in two after his death. Elijah confronts Ahab on Mount Carmel.

The jewel-seeded fruit of the Promised Land — carved 400 times on Temple columns and sewn onto the High Priest's robe.

The wide-branched fig relative that Zacchaeus climbed — a common tree of the poor, whose fruit had to be pierced before it could ripen.