Curated playlist
Prophets in the Druze faith
- JesusJesus left no writings of his own. Almost everything known about him comes from accounts by others.
- MosesMichelangelo's statue of Moses has horns because of a mistranslation. A Latin Bible turned ray of light into horned.
- John the ApostleJohn the Apostle, tradition says, was the only one of the Twelve who died peacefully.
- AbrahamAbraham is revered by billions, yet most scholars now read him as literature, not history.
- NoahNoah's flood story matches an older Mesopotamian tale point by point.
- Matthew the ApostleMatthew the Apostle is a man whose job title survives in the Gospels longer than almost anything else about him. He sat at what older translations call the receipt of custom in Capernaum, collecting taxes, when Jesus told him to follow.…
- AkhenatenAkhenaten, a pharaoh of Egypt, erased the old gods and kept one sun disc. He built a new capital on empty land.
- Luke the EvangelistLuke the Evangelist is credited with 27.5 percent of the New Testament, the largest contribution from any single author. That share is spread across two books, the Gospel of Luke and the Acts of the Apostles, which scholars treat as one…
- MuhammadMuhammad had lost his father, mother and grandfather by age eight. He founded a religion that spread across Arabia.
- John the BaptistJohn the Baptist is the only saint whose birth and death are both commemorated in the Roman martyrology. He was a Jewish preacher who worked along the Jordan River in the early first century AD, and he is thought to have been born around 6…
- ElijahEvery Saturday evening, as the Sabbath ends, Jewish families perform the Havdalah ceremony and sing a plea for Elijah to arrive. The hymn goes: "Elijah the Prophet, Elijah the Tishbite, Elijah from Gilead. Let him come quickly, in our day…