Who were the Hellenistic Jews and why are they important? Second Temple of Jerusalem. Credit: Templar1307. CC BY 2.0/flickr The Hellenization of much of the world brought about by the conquests of ...

This volume gathers sixteen essays on monarchy and power in the Hellenistic period and charts a new approach to Hellenistic history by focusing attention on biblical and Jewish evidence and reading ...

Because the Jewish calendar is lunisolar, the date of Hanukah changes each year. It always falls between late November and ...

Christianity emanated out of His life, death, and resurrection. Early Christian believers included Jews from the Judean area, ...

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

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

The star waded into some of history’s most charged debates about the Jewish community with her comments on the Holocaust and race. (JTA) — She may not have meant to, but this week Whoopi ...

Against these, Sand offers an alternative history in which the striking demographic growth of the Jews in the Hellenistic Mediterranean was the product not of mass exile, but of an energetic drive of ...

A Jewish man wearing a yarmulke was shot multiple times on his way to synagogue in Chicago. A rabbi in Maryland was attacked by a man wielding a wooden stake. In Manhattan, a man wearing a ...

We see the protodeacons in Acts 6 when there is a dispute between Hellenistic wives and Jewish widows about poverty relief. In order to allow the Apostles to do what they are supposed to be ...

[26] Piotrkowski puts forth that the characteristics when trying to determine if a work may be of Oniad Jewish origin are; if it is in Greek (the lingua franca for the time and place), if it is known ...

The second gentleman is set to deliver a speech in Pittsburgh, the site of a deadly synagogue shooting during Trump’s first term. WASHINGTON — In a speech to be delivered just miles away from ...