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We tend to focus on the big ones – the plagues, the splitting of the Red Sea – but Jewish tradition suggests the miraculous was woven into the very fabric of their experience. It w...
The birth of a child, for instance, can be a moment of overwhelming happiness tinged with the pain of labor, the worry for their future. The story of Benjamin's birth, as recounted...
There's a whole world of fascinating texts out there, bubbling with stories and details that expand on the familiar narratives. Today, let's peek into one of them: the Book of Jubi...
Like you're swimming upstream in a river of… well, you get the picture. That struggle, that feeling of being unfairly opposed, is an incredibly ancient one. And it echoes through t...
The Letter of Aristeas, an ancient text that purports to describe the translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Greek Septuagint, touches on just that question. And it does so in a ...
More often, it's a tale riddled with injustice, with power used to justify the unthinkable. The Letter of Aristeas, a fascinating document supposedly written in the 2nd century BCE...
It all begins with a letter – the Letter of Aristeas. Imagine this: you're a high-ranking official in the court of Ptolemy Philadelphus, the Greek ruler of Egypt in the 3rd century...
The writer Josephus, in his work Against Apion, deals with just such an argument. He's responding to the claims of a fellow named Apion, who’s taking potshots at the Jewish people....
But what if I told you there's a perspective, woven into ancient Jewish thought, that offers a slightly different angle? Let's delve into something called the Midrash of Philo. Now...
