And this is how I was fairly anti-Israel for nearly 20 years. It came to a point where I felt I had to always apologize for ...

They were also a rebellious, independent people. Under Greek rule, Jewish elites were increasingly Hellenized, but as tradition has it, in 166 BCE, the Maccabees rebelled against foreign rule ...

Cherry blossoms via computer art, a rare tapestry and 6th-century jewels, inspiration from Mardi Gras, and blending edgy ...

Inscriptions on some of the pillars, according to experts, identify donors who paid for the shrine; interestingly, several ...

Texts penned by Hellenized Jews such as Philo of Alexandria convey no specific belief that Jewish and Greek culture were incompatible. Another example, the Letter of Aristeas, holds up Jews and ...

Under the Persian empire, Cilicia was said to be governed by tributary native kings who bore a Hellenized name or the title of “Syennesis”, and it was officially included in the fourth satrapy by ...

But you might recognize, for example, the letter Omega right here. So how is it that a Greco-Bactrian speaking Buddhist inscribed a Hellenized version of a Sanskrit mantra here in Afghanistan? Well, ...

But getting back to ancient Israel, and the Athas volume, he devotes some pages to “Resistance Literature” – in particular, ...

into terms of apocalypse with the actual historical events chronicled by such Hellenized Jews as Josephus and the author of Second Maccabees. But if definite events and the actors in them are hard ...