"Some Reflections on Hellenistic Judaism" was the subject of a lecture recently gow. The Edinburgh Scotsman gives this resume of his remarks: View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

They were also fighting the most sophisticated and powerful culture of its time — Hellenism — and its many incursions into Jewish life. Even more impressive is that the Maccabees were not only ...

How Hellenized was the Jewish religious culture of the time? Jewish culture and civilization during the Hellenistic period was in intense dialogue with Hellenistic culture and civilization ...

Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...

It appears that we have discovered a building that was part of a fortified line erected by the Hellenistic army commanders ... to stamp out all expressions of Judaism in Israel, which was then ...

The light-filled holiday of Hanukkah marks the victory of Israel over the forces of Hellenism. When the Greek invaders defiled the Holy Temple and attempted to force the Jews to assimilate into ...

Equally unprecedented, on Yom Kippur, a few days before the Hamas invasion, a mob of "elites" prevented Jews from traditional public prayer in Tel Aviv, "their" bastion of Hellenism. The Jews fled ...

How Hellenized was the Jewish religious culture of the time? Jewish culture and civilization during the Hellenistic period was in intense dialogue with Hellenistic culture and civilization ...