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With Israel's move into the Golan Heights demilitarized zone and southern Syria following the collapse of al-Assad's regime, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must heed the calls of Druze in Syria ...

an extensive body of extra-canonical and Gnostic texts emerged, permeating Jesus-believing communities throughout the Empire. Christianity, as a religion, prioritized Paul’s teachings over those ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...