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We all know the story of the plagues visited upon Egypt. Blood, frogs, locusts… a greatest hits album of divine retribution. But what about the behind-the-scenes details? What abou...
We all know the story: the plagues, the parting of the Red Sea, the Israelites' triumphant escape from Egypt. But what about the behind-the-scenes cosmic drama? The Book of Jubilee...
A world without evil. Sounds pretty good. The Book of Jubilees, a text from around the 2nd century BCE, paints just such a picture. It's not part of the standard Hebrew Bible, but ...
It wasn't pretty. Imagine the stories filtering in – whispers of entire cities laid waste, populations decimated, all resistance crushed under the iron fist of the Assyrian war mac...
That’s exactly where the people of Judea found themselves in the Book of Judith. Imagine this: You’ve just returned from exile, painstakingly rebuilt your temple, and rededicated t...
See, Holofernes, the general of Nebuchadnezzar's army, was on a mission. A mission to crush any resistance in his path. And he's hearing whispers about this stubborn group of peopl...
The story of the Jewish people is nothing short of a miracle, really. And if you want to understand that miracle, you have to look at their journey. The Book of Judith, a fascinati...
The Book of Judith offers some profound insights. In chapter 5, we hear a fascinating, albeit biased, account of Jewish history and resilience. The speaker is Achior, the leader of...
Last time, we left Achior, the Ammonite leader, in a seriously precarious position. He'd dared to warn Holofernes, the Assyrian general, that the Israelites were protected by their...
