The Bible Rules

Explore the ways ancient people attempted to control the dark forces in their lives. It's a launch pad for a deep investigation into the mindset of people who walked the earth millennia ago.

Decode the world in which the Bible's often bizarre rules about sex were established to u how everything from Greek statues to mortality rates influenced the reality of human sexual relations.

The Bible forbids Israelite armies from cutting down the trees of enemy cities. Is this a clue to a 3000-year-old green movement or is something else going on here? Hint: It's all about the olives.

It comes as no surprise the Bible has a lot to say on the subject of alcoholic beverages. Yet wine and spirits played a very different role in the ancient world than they do today.

Plunge into a world of otherworldly gods, who had to be fed, clothed and coddled by their believers.

Whether in Rome or Greece, Egypt or Israel, human beings lived under bondage, but there were surprising laws in place to regulate the practice