Sixty-eight was an interesting year.  Halving the time, John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded around 34 CE (Common Era), a date of no small significance, for the Bible teaches that Jesus Christ began his ministry following John the Baptist’s imprisonment (Mark 1:14). The New Testament tells us Jesus completed his mission three years later, […]

From the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Damascus Document and the Pesharim (“commentaries,” singular: pesher) date the Essene community’s birth to 390 years after the destruction of Jerusalem. Since Jerusalem was destroyed in 586 BCE, that would put the community’s inception at 196 BCE (before the Common Era—the zero point of the Gregorian calendar). These documents

What we want vs. what Allah wants for us. Those who choose not to vote the prophets and revelation into their lives seem to do so for one of two reasons — the first being that they sample the message with which the prophets were sent and find it to be personally distasteful or, at

It is sometimes hard to believe the sequence of blunders life occasionally throws together in a buckled and smoking train-wreck of shortsightedness and tomfoolery. However, when we learn that “foolery” by itself is a word, we must logically deduce that Tom must have been such a supreme master of the craft that his contemporaries felt