Can you give just a general definition of what's meant by the term the Hellenistic world? The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the ...

Chanukah is an ideal platform to discuss Torah based concepts relating to holiness and the profane, and to address the Jewish mandate to remain a holy people. Yet the Maccabees fought for many years, ...

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 ...

Every year, Jews around the world celebrate Hanukkah, or the Festival of Lights. According to the Talmud, the tradition dates back to the Maccabean Revolt (167 to 160 B.C.E.), in which Jewish rebels ...