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The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text that purports to describe the translation of the Torah into Greek, offers a glimpse into this very question. It suggests that these seemi...
That’s the picture painted for us in the opening of the Book of Maccabees I. The scene is Israel, and a pall has fallen over the land. "Therefore there was a great mourning in Isra...
Our story comes to us from the Book of Maccabees I, a historical account filled with drama, faith, and fierce battles. As Antiochus felt his life slipping away, he attributed his t...
That feeling is at the heart of this passage from I Maccabees, Chapter 7. It’s a tense moment, a real clash of worlds. The scene is set with a villain, someone who should know bett...
We're stepping into a pivotal moment, a turning point hard-won by the courage and faith of the Maccabees. They'd fought valiantly against the Seleucid Empire, against the desecrati...
We often think of the classic texts – the Torah, the Midrash – but there's a whole other world of accounts out there, often written by those not so fond of the Jewish people. Let's...
to what some of our sages have said about it. The verse reads, “Unto the woman He said: ‘I will greatly multiply thy pain and thy travail; in pain thou shalt bring forth children; ...
The Midrash of Philo, a collection of interpretations and expansions on the Hebrew Bible attributed to the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, offers a fascinating perspective....
Much older. The Midrash of Philo, a collection of interpretations and expansions on the Hebrew Bible attributed to the Jewish philosopher Philo of Alexandria, explores just that id...
