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That’s kind of where Sarah finds herself in the Book of Tobit. Imagine this: you’re a young woman, ready to start your life, but every man you marry dies on your wedding night. Not...
You're soaring through the air, or sailing on a vast ocean, only to snap awake and realize it was all in your head. The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating text from the Hellenistic ...
That’s where our story begins, with the Prayer of Manasseh. It's a short, powerful text, not found in the Hebrew Bible, but included in the Apocrypha, those fascinating books nestl...
Jewish tradition understands that feeling. Deeply. And it offers a lifeline. It's a lifeline we find in unexpected places – like the apocryphal Prayer of Manasseh. This short, powe...
That feeling of being utterly unworthy... it's a human experience that echoes through centuries, and finds a powerful voice in a short, potent prayer attributed to a very unlikely ...
Manasseh, King of Judah. Not exactly a role model. The Bible paints a pretty grim picture: idol worship, child sacrifice, all sorts of wickedness. You can read about it in 2 Kings ...
Flavius Josephus, in his Against Apion, grapples with precisely this when he contrasts the historical record of the Jews with that of the Greeks. He points out that the Greeks them...
Here he is, trying to set the record straight, and he's facing accusations that his work is nothing more than a "scholastic performance," something churned out just for show. Can y...
He tackles this head-on in his work, Against Apion, a passionate defense of Judaism against its detractors. And in this section, Josephus gets straight to the point: he's had enoug...
