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We're in Jerusalem, a city already reeling from conflict. The Seleucid Empire holds sway, and the Jewish people are struggling to maintain their traditions. In the midst of this tu...
Tryphon, that treacherous viper, sends his armies – footmen and horsemen – swarming into Galilee and the great plain. Their mission? To utterly destroy every last one of Jonathan's...
Today, we're diving into a specific moment in that saga, found in the Book of Maccabees I, chapter 13. The scene is set: Simon Maccabeus, leader of the Jewish people after the deat...
It wasn't all that different from today, really — a mix of strategic interests, personal relationships, and, of course, good old-fashioned diplomacy. Let’s take a peek into The Boo...
The Second Book of Maccabees tells a harrowing, yet inspiring, story of faith and resistance. It recounts the persecution of Jews under the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleuc...
The Book of Wisdom, one of the fascinating texts in the Apocrypha (writings related to the Bible but not included in the Jewish or Protestant canons), grapples with these very ques...
Apion, see, had a laundry list of complaints against the Jews. Josephus, in his work Against Apion, takes each one head-on. And in this particular section, Apion throws a few zinge...
Josephus, the first-century Romano-Jewish historian, gives us a fascinating glimpse into just that when describing Jewish law in his work, Against Apion. He points out something cr...
It’s a question that sits at the heart of Jewish identity, and one that Josephus, the first-century Romano-Jewish historian, grapples with in his work, Against Apion. He's essentia...
