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to a fascinating, and sometimes surprising, peek into the origins of Passover and Shabbat, as seen through the lens of a text called the Book of Jubilees. The Book of Jubilees, som...
The Book of Jubilees, an ancient Jewish text that expands on the Torah, gives us a glimpse. It paints a picture of a day so special, so infused with the divine, that it forever alt...
Judith, remember, is the brave and beautiful widow who's infiltrated the enemy camp of Holofernes, the Assyrian general laying siege to her city, Bethulia. She's pretending to be a...
We get a glimpse, a vivid snapshot, from the Letter of Aristeas. This letter, a fascinating document from the Hellenistic period, purports to be written by a Greek official named A...
But before we even get to the translation, the letter gives us a glimpse into the awe-inspiring presence of the High Priest in Jerusalem. The author, supposedly a Greek courtier na...
It paints a picture of a community whose very speech and thoughts are a force for good. It begins by telling us where their minds are: "Their meditation is on the Law of the Most H...
Our scene unfolds in a small town in Judea, under the oppressive rule of the Seleucid Empire. King Antiochus IV Epiphanes has decreed that everyone must abandon their ancestral tra...
We're talking about a time when the Seleucid Empire, under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes, was in full swing, trying to Hellenize, or make Greek, everyone under its rule. It wasn't ju...
We find ourselves in a time of great upheaval. The story unfolds in the First Book of Maccabees (I Maccabees 2), a historical account, not part of the Hebrew Bible itself, but deep...
