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Sometimes, the answer is simpler – and more personal – than you might think. Take the story of Madai. We find him in the Book of Jubilees, hanging out in the land of Media, close t...
Jubilees, considered deuterocanonical (meaning it's included in some versions of the Bible but not others), gives us some incredible detail about Abraham's life, filling in gaps an...
Rebecca, the matriarch of our people, certainly did. The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that expands on the stories in Genesis, gives us a glimpse into her final days. It...
Our story comes from the Book of Jubilees, a fascinating text considered canonical by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church but not by most of mainstream Judaism. Think of it as a kind of ...
That sense of, "Which way do I go?" That's precisely where we find Jacob in the Book of Jubilees, chapter 44. He's facing a dilemma of epic proportions. His son, Joseph, is a power...
That's the world we're stepping into today, with the opening of the Book of Judith. It all starts in the seventeenth year of an unnamed king's reign. Now, right away, some scholars...
We're not talking about gentle parables here. This is war. This is conquest. This is the kind of brutality that makes you want to look away – but we won't, because within it lies a...
That’s the feeling you get reading about Holofernes in the Book of Judith. He was that terrifying. We’ve talked about Judith, about her courage and her faith. But to truly understa...
Holofernes is about to lay siege to the Jewish city of Bethulia. And you, Achior, have just given him a history lesson – a warning, really. You've explained to him, in no uncertain...
