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With no confirmation of Jesus' birth and no mention of Christmas itself in the Bible, you may be wondering how the holiday ...

With no confirmation of Jesus' birth and no mention of Christmas itself in the Bible, you may be wondering how the holiday ...

Did Christmas came from Saturnalia? Some say yes while others claim that it emerged organically. And what about Jesus' real ...

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In the 18th and 19th centuries, biblical scholars interested in parallels between ancient religious belief systems argued ...

Numa Pompilius receives the laws of Rome from the nymph Egeria, a work by Felice Giani. Credit: Public domain / Wikimedia Commons According to Ovid, Varro, Fulvius, and other classical sources, the ...

With apologies to the Polish Catholics celebrating the feast of Our Lady of Częstochowa on Aug. 26: Blessings for the feast of Melchizedek. Yes, that Melchizedek, from Genesis 14 and Hebrews 7 and ...