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, ...

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 ...

The LORD is good to those who wait for him, a refuge on the day of distress, Taking care of those who look to him for protection. ―Nahum 1:7 Nahum is the seventh of the Old Testament Minor Prophets ...

An Iraqi fighter from the Shiite Al-Abbas popular mobilization unit in the embattled Anbar province west of Baghdad, on May 19, 2015. MOHAMMED SAWAF/AFP/Getty Images A 2,700-year-old tomb of a Hebrew ...

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 ...

On a spring day in April 2017, two jeeps, their windows blacked out, sped down a sandy highway in Iraqi Kurdistan toward the small Christian village of Alqosh. In the cars sat two Israeli engineers, ...

For nearly 30 centuries the tomb of the prophet Nahum was an important pilgrimage site for Jews in what is today Kurdish Iraq. But after the founding of Israel in 1948, all its Jewish caretakers began ...

The United States announced Friday that it would contribute an additional $500,000 to help restore the tomb believed to be the resting place of the biblical prophet Nahum in the town of Alqosh in ...

A day after arriving in Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region, Michigan rabbi Asher Lopatin woke up at 3 a.m. and set out across the dusty desert landscape for the small town of ...