The Jewish presence in Armenia dates back nearly two millennia, to the period of pagan Armenia. According to historical ...

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 ...

The systematic rendering of יסר by παιδεύω and παιδεία in the Septuagint allowed a merging of the divine correction as found in Deut 8:5 or Prov 3:12 with the classical meaning of παιδεία, "education" ...

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, ...

Among Jewish writers of antiquity, no figure is more paradoxical than Flavius Josephus. Born in Jerusalem in 37 CE, a priest and general who defected to Rome during the Jewish revolt, Josephus ...

This is Hanukkah season. In Hebrew schools across the country the Hanukkah story will be told, and the story usually goes like this: The wicked king Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked the innocent and ...

This post is in partnership with the History News Network, the website that puts the news into historical perspective. The article below was originally published at HNN. Though Hanukkah now is a ...