Israeli archeologists say they have discovered the family tomb of Caiaphas, the Jewish high priest who presided at the trial of Jesus and delivered him to the Romans to be crucified. Buried in an ...

A jailed political leader in Nigeria was released on bail last week — with the help of a man described in local papers as a “Jewish Chief High Priest.” Nnamdi Kanu, the high profile head of ...

One of the sites in Israel least visited by Western tourists is the tomb of Ishmael, the last high priest (“Kohen Gadol”) of the Jewish temple of Jerusalem. And there is good reason for this.

An intricate mosaic depicting Alexander the Great meeting a Jewish high priest was uncovered in a 5th-century synagogue at the archeological site in the ancient village of Huqoq. An extremely rare ...

Did Alexander the Great meet a Jewish priest, and was this meeting enshrined in a mosaic floor? It's probably just a legend, but the mosaic is also the first non-biblical one ever to be found in ...

Find out more from BBC Religion & Ethics - The case against Caiaphas Very few facts are known about Caiaphas: Appointed Jewish High Priest around 18 or 19CE by Gratus, the fourth Roman Prefect of ...

and to be high priest was far greater still. By an ancient tradition, the Jewish priests were descended from Levi, one of the sons of Jacob, whom God renamed Israel. It had been the tribe of Levi ...