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About the moments when a community decides, "This is important. This needs to be remembered"? Let's travel back to a pivotal moment in Jewish history, a time of war, resilience, an...
Specifically, the fire of divine approval. The Second Book of Maccabees, a historical and religious text not included in the Hebrew Bible but important for understanding the Second...
That feeling is exactly what the author of 2 Maccabees understood. He recognized that the existing accounts of the Maccabean revolt – that pivotal moment in Jewish history – were, ...
It’s not exactly scripture in the way, say, the Torah is. But it's a crucial historical text, giving us a glimpse into the turbulent times of the Maccabean revolt. And right there,...
We've been following her story, a tale of beauty, faith, and unjust accusation in ancient Babylon. Two corrupt elders, consumed by lust, had falsely accused her of adultery. Her li...
We've been looking at how different writers tried to explain the story of the Israelites leaving Egypt. Last time, we dug into Manetho's version, and now we're going to look at Che...
That’s exactly what we find ourselves facing when we delve into the writings of Lysimachus, a figure who, according to Josephus in his work Against Apion, spun a tale so incredibly...
Our guide is Josephus, the first-century Romano-Jewish historian. In his work Against Apion, he defends Judaism against its detractors. And in doing so, he offers a fascinating, an...
Why wasn't she just... there? Well, according to a fascinating interpretation found in the Midrash of Philo 22, it's not just a random detail. It speaks to something much deeper ab...
