Remarkably, the town of Al Qosh is home to the remains of an ancient Jewish Synagogue, and within its confines, the tomb of Nahum the Elkoshi. The tomb, purported to be 2,700-years-old is guarded by a ...

There are three important factors concerning the date of Nahum’s prophecy. First, in 3:8–10, the fall of the Egyptian city of No-amon (i.e. Thebes) to the Assyrians is spoken of as a past event, ...

Jewish officials in Kurdistan are trying to save an ancient tomb believed to belong to the biblical prophet Nahum and his sister in the Christian town of Alqosh, some 30 miles outside the ISIS ...

Since I’m not a Bible scholar, I’m not very embarrassed about the theological and historical errors I’ve made while blogging. But since I’m an American citizen, I am extremely embarrassed about the ...

U.S. Army captain and heritage expert Heather Sprowls, shown here with a local girl, surveys an 800-year-old synagogue believed to house the tomb of the biblical prophet Nahum. The crumbling stone ...

The timeworn synagogue of Alqosh, nestled at the base of the Bayhidhra Mountains in the governorate of Nineveh, is one of Iraq’s few remaining Jewish houses of prayer. Vegetation has reclaimed the ...