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 ...

During these thousand years, this period was nourished by legends and unfounded speculations, such as the alleged conversion of the Khazars, used to compensate for the lack of historical sources. It ...

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 ...

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 ...

Following the deportation of Jews to Babylonia between 597 BCE and 586 BCE, most of them lived outside the Land of Israel.

Moreover, a Jewish religion in the modern sense of the term did not exist at the time when the group of Jesus’ disciples emerged. During the Hellenistic and Roman periods, Jesus’ disciples on ...