How Hellenized was the Jewish religious culture of the time? Jewish culture and civilization during the Hellenistic period was in intense dialogue with Hellenistic culture and civilization ...

Later, Jews were exposed to Hellenistic [meaning the language and manner of the Greeks] tendencies. Despite the strength of ...

Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

This will happen again in 2027. Hanukkah commemorates the Maccabean Revolt of 167-160 BCE, in which a Jewish army rebelled ...

It appears that we have discovered a building that was part of a fortified line erected by the Hellenistic army commanders ... to stamp out all expressions of Judaism in Israel, which was then ...

The Samaritans were a group of people who inhabited the region of Samaria in ancient Israel. One theory claims their origins ...