Il Vecchio Testamento.
And may help clarify Jerusalem’s borders at the time.
“Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor.”
With help from a porcupine.
A modest suggestion for a new way of thinking about the original meaning of the word “Maccabee.”
“A rare and exciting find.”
The Hanukkah story didn’t end with the rededication of the Temple.
How the Hasmoneans changed halakhah.
Talmudic rabbis never forgave the combining of priesthood with the monarchy.
Just in time for Hanukkah.
In the Maccabees’ hometown.
What Seleucid inscriptions tell us.
An archaeological mystery solved?
Archaeologists are reviving a 145-year-old hypothesis.