ancient Judaism

Four Decades after Its Discovery, a Talmudic-Era Jewish Amulet Comes to Light

A 1,500-year-old weapon against the evil eye.

Rossella Tercatin
May 27 2021 12:01AM

Philo of Alexandria Sought to Combine Greek Thought with Sacred Scripture

Unambiguously and unashamedly Jewish.

Gregory Sterling
April 16 2021 12:01AM

Why Does the Talmud Recommend Using Coins with a Pagan Deity Carved on Them

The Tyre shekel and Heracles-Melqarth.

David Hendin
March 2 2021 12:01AM

Is There Any Reason the Last Digit of the Jewish Year and Last Digit of the Civil Year Are the Same?

From now until next September 6, we will be living in 5781 and 2021. Is that an accident, or is a deeper synchronicity at work?

Philologos
Jan. 13 2021 12:01AM

The World of Dead Sea Scroll Forgeries

The work of knowledgeable professionals.

Christopher Rollston
Dec. 3 2020 12:01AM

The Netherlands Considers Permitting the Euthanizing of Children Only a Year Old

A society that believes in nothing can offer no argument even against death.

Wesley Smith
Oct. 23 2020 12:01AM

Remains of Ritual Baths and Olive-Oil Presses from the Early Talmudic Era

A virtual tour of Usha.

Anat Harrel
Sept. 14 2020 12:01AM

Kibbutzniks Are Fighting to Preserve a 2,000-Year-Old Ritual Bath

Discover by a Muslim and a Christian.

Rossella Tercatin
July 15 2020 12:01AM

An Ancient Greek Inscription Paints a Portrait of One of the Forgotten Jewish Communities of Asia Minor

The Jews of Aprhodisias.

Carl Rusmussen
July 6 2020 12:01AM

New Findings Suggest That a Group of Ancient Israelites Used Marijuana in Religious Rituals

Hashish and frankincense?

Israel Hayom
June 18 2020 12:01AM

A Workshop for Making Stone Vessels Testifies to Ancient Jews’ Observance of Ritual Purity Laws

Excavating the Jewish “stone age.”

Robin Ngo
May 4 2020 12:01AM

Archaeologists Believe They Have Discovered an Israelite Temple Contemporaneous with Solomon’s

Located just outside Jerusalem.

Amanda Borschel-Dan
Feb. 5 2020 12:01AM

When Did Jews and Christians Part Ways? Later Than You Might Think

A new scholarly analysis of the early church.

Noah Benjamin Bickart
Dec. 31 2019 12:01AM

What the Masada Scrolls Reveal about Second Temple Judaism

The Dead Sea sect might not have been so unusual as once thought.

Lawrence Schiffman
Dec. 13 2019 12:01AM
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