Hebraism vs. which Hellenism?

Were the Hasmoneans really outnumbered?

The bloody reign of Alexander Yannai.

Talmudic rabbis never forgave the combining of priesthood with the monarchy.

Alexander the Great and the high priest, or a Hasmonean king and Antiochus?

And the menorah’s mythological beasts.

A political movement.

Greeks or Jews?

Could the remains of the last Hasmonean king have been found under a private house in Jerusalem? (Registration required.)

Have excavations near the modern Israeli city of Modi’in exposed the hometown of the heroes of Hannukah?

Twenty years ago, a scholarly consensus identified the Dead Sea Scrolls with the ascetic Essene community at Qumran. Now the picture is more complicated.

As the festival on which both temples were dedicated, Sukkot is associated in both prophetic and rabbinic literature with the messianic era—and historically with several. . .