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The story of Hanukkah, the festival of lights, isn't just about oil lasting for eight nights. It's a story etched in blood, faith, and unwavering defiance. Let's turn the clock bac...
We're talking, of course, about the spark that ignited the Maccabean revolt, that incredible story of Jewish resistance against the Seleucid Empire. Mattathias, a priest from the v...
The kind of betrayal that shakes your faith in humanity. That's the kind of situation we find ourselves in with a particular passage from the Book of Maccabees I. We're in the thic...
Let’s rewind for a moment. We're in a tumultuous time, the era chronicled in the Book of Maccabees I. Things are tense, battles are raging, and the Jewish people are fighting for t...
Josephus, in his work Against Apion, reflects on this very question. He's making a case for the integrity and antiquity of Jewish history, and he does so by comparing it to the his...
to one such instance, where the Egyptian historian Manetho gives us a glimpse into how the ancient world viewed the Israelites' exodus from Egypt. Josephus, in his work Against Api...
The Midrash of Philo – and when we say Midrash, we're talking about a way of interpreting scripture that fills in the gaps, making the stories speak to us today – offers a fascinat...
It's not just a children's tale about animals two-by-two. Ancient interpreters saw layers of meaning in every detail, even the order in which people entered and exited the ark. Phi...
The ancient sages certainly thought so. And they weren't afraid to use vivid language to make the point. Take this passage from the Midrash of Philo. It's a bit intense, but stick ...
