The identity of the Nephilim is one of the oldest debates in biblical studies. Some early Jewish texts like 1 Enoch describe them as monstrous offspring of heavenly beings and human women, towering ...

Now that my home team, the Washington Nationals, is in the World Series, their opponents, the Houston Astros, will find themselves facing a Nationals pitcher named Aníbal Sánchez. A second Nationals ...

One afternoon in the city of Tyre, the story has it, the Canaanite god Melqart (also known as Heracles) and his mistress, Tyros, were strolling along the beach with their pet dog when the dog took a ...

DNA analysis of an ancient burial ground shows that today's Lebanese are genetic descendants of the biblical Canaanites. That has some Lebanese re-evaluating their fractured identity. You may recall ...

The people of Canaan, said in the Bible to have been wiped out, actually lived to pass their genes to people of modern-day Lebanon.