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The Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered scripture by some but not included in the standard Jewish or Christian Bibles, gives us a glimpse into just such a story, focusi...
There’s this fascinating ancient text, the Book of Jubilees, a work that retells the stories of Genesis and Exodus but with a very particular slant. It’s not part of the Hebrew Bib...
Take the story of Jacob's sons and the city of Shechem. It's a brutal tale, full of moral complexities. And it's found not just in Genesis, but also amplified in other ancient Jewi...
That’s the kind of moment our ancestors faced in the story we're about to dive into, a story from the First Book of Maccabees. Imagine this: it’s a time of intense religious persec...
That’s the feeling that must have been weighing heavily on Judas Maccabeus and his small band of fighters as they camped south of Emmaus. The Book of Maccabees I, a historical text...
Take, for instance, that cryptic line in Genesis 15:16: "For the sins of the Amorites were not as yet completed." What does that even mean? It's a verse that on the surface seems s...
R. DOSA B. HARKINAS SAID: MORNING SLEEP, AND MIDDAY WINE, [AND CHILDREN’S TALK, AND SITTING IN THE MEETING-HOUSES OF THE IGNORANT] DRIVE A MAN OUT OF THE WORLD.MORNING SLEEP—what d...
THERE WERE TEN GENERATIONS FROM ADAM TO NOAH. What need is there for mankind to [know] this? It is to teach you that although those generations provoked Him continually, the Holy O...
And the Lord said to Noah, Enter, thou, and every one of thy house, into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation. Of all clean cattle take thou seven b...
