Xerxes had spent years planning his invasion of Greece. It was to be his 'divine punishment' for his father Darius' crushing defeat at Marathon in 490 BC. Now, a decade later, he had spared no ...

So it seems either Xerxes had more than the one wife ... would have known at least parts of the Jewish canon that would later become the Bible. It is at least possible that the inspiration for the ...

By night he sent a messenger to the Persian king, Xerxes, informing him that the Greeks intended to flee. Unless he acted now, Xerxes would lose the opportunity to defeat the Greeks in one fell swoop.

The Revised English Bible updates the New English Bible, retaining the latter’s elegant literary style, but removing its archaisms. The REB employs a modest amount of inclusive language and is good ...

Rabbis were especially appalled by men dressing up as women and vice versa, since cross-dressing is explicitly forbidden in the Bible (Deuteronomy 22:5 ... King Ahasuerus (better known in the West as ...

The New English Bible was a translation undertaken by the major Protestant churches of the British Isles. Scholars translated from the best Hebrew and Greek texts, aiming to present the full meaning ...

Knox through Xerxes, York, and Zenith), which I might recite on my deathbed to prove I still have brain function. Superimposed over that geography, like a Jackson Pollock painted on a fishnet ...