ancient Judaism

From an island garrison in the Nile to a Moscow museum.

Nov. 22 2023 12:01AM

Searching for the secret of time.

Sarit Kattan Gribetz
Nov. 20 2023 12:01AM

The Isle of Elephantine.

Nathan Steinmeyer
Oct. 31 2023 12:01AM

Midrash as literary revolt against Hellenism.

Simon Goldhill
Oct. 30 2023 12:01AM

If the Mishnah isn’t theology, history, or law, what is it?

Shaye Cohen
Sept. 18 2023 12:01AM

In a Greek colony on the Black Sea coast.

Aristos Georgiou
Aug. 17 2023 12:01AM

Emperor Julian’s unfulfilled promise.

Itzchak Tessler and Yonatan Moss
Aug. 3 2023 12:01AM

Even in the years of decline, the Land of Israel remained a center of Jewish creativity.

Tamar Marvin
July 31 2023 12:01AM

And an ancient sect’s version of all-night study.

Martin Goodman
May 23 2023 12:01AM

How not to read the text through a modern lens.

April 24 2023 12:01AM

What their gravestones tell us.

Henry Abramson
March 27 2023 12:01AM

Forgotten Babylonian artifacts at the Hermitage.

March 14 2023 12:01AM

And why the Dead Sea Scrolls are overrated.

Malka Simkovich
Dec. 29 2022 12:01AM

A new book called The Origins of Judaism places the momentous occurrence much later in time than that proposed by most scholars. Is it right?

Nov. 28 2022 12:01AM