Genesis 6 introduces the Nephilim—mysterious figures described as “heroes of old, warriors of renown.” This video unpacks centuries of interpretations across Jewish and Christian traditions, tracing ...

Experts Determine the Age of 'Dead Sea Scrolls,' Some Date Back to the Original Authors of the Bible The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the most significant archaeological discoveries of recent decades.

The Hellenistic world considered circumcision disfiguring. This attitude influenced many Jewish men as well; to advance socially, they would undergo an epispasm, a painful procedure to restore ...

A crucial investigation into the theology, religious atmosphere, and literary traditions of ancient Christianity and its relationship to Platonic philosophy and Hellenistic Judaism, it included ...

Conflicts between traditional Jews and those influenced by Hellenism led to tensions, and Jewish rebels took up arms in 167 B.C. The revolt was put down, ...

Some Reflections on Hellenistic Judaism. EFFECT OF HELLENISM ON JUDAISM; A Lecture by Claude Montefiore on the Alexandrine Jaws and the Changes in National Ideals Produced by Enviornment.

Judaism rejected the Hellenistic worship of the body, as well as its worship of many gods. But Judaism also opened its doors to some aspects of Hellenistic culture.

Judaism is not only a faith but a tribe, ... Roman Empire, when Jews were in a position of strength, at least some of them actively worked to convert people in the Hellenistic world.

In the apocryphal Book of Maccabees, there is the story of Eleazar, a Jewish elder who opts to die rather than eat the pork forced on him by his tormentors — an early version of stories in ...

The games were historically used as a way to study the Torah while all Jewish practices were outlawed during the reign of Greek Hellenistic king Antiochus IV. Like many holidays, food is central ...