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 ...

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 ...

The Jewish population of Judea and Galilee was divided into three religious groups, two major and one minor. The largest group by numbers were the Pharisees but they were not a majority.

They were also fighting the most sophisticated and powerful culture of its time — Hellenism — and its many incursions into Jewish life. Even more impressive is that the Maccabees were not only ...

Iron Age, Persian–Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine and Crusader–Mamluk Remains at Ḥorbat ‘Ofrat in Lower Galilee. ‘Atiqot. Alexandre Y. In preparation. The Excavations at Karm er-Ras (Kana of Galilee).

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 ...