A woman who rarely receives praise, though her disobedience was for an understandable reason and ultimately provided the ...

The vibrant Jewish festival of Purim with the story of Ester that prevented an ancient holocaust taking place has been ...

Eastern historians, such as the ninth-century Persian al-Tabari, believed that Zenobia was not Greek but of Arab descent. Modern historians agree that the queen of Palmyra did not descend from the ...