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Those who make extraordinary choices often have no alternative. Not so in the Book of Ruth, where we learn that, after the ...

It claims to reveal who exactly killed Jesus Christ - and that man even has a statue erected in the Vatican City ...

Explore the origins of the first written texts, from ancient hymns to the Epic of Gilgamesh—humanity's earliest literary ...