Jews and Judaism in World History
Yet the biggest threat to the survival of the dynasty was the infighting within the royal family. Each succession was accompanie ...
Antigonus, who had Hyrcanus’s ears cut off, maiming him and thus render- ing him ineligible to be High Priest. Antigonus, though ...
eagle – a pagan Roman emblem – placed atop the gateway of the Temple. He appointed and deposed high priests at will, thus comple ...
a Hellenistic ritual in which participants discussed Greek philosophy while lounging around a table and eating a large feast. Th ...
check for more than half a century: First, Roman rule continued to improve the material quality of life in Judea. Second, each o ...
The emperor also gave Agrippa additional territory, including part of Galilee in 53. Like his father, the younger Agrippa made a ...
had united around the Hasmoneans, disunity between the sects and among the Zealots had weakened the revolt against Rome. Ultimat ...
Following the defeat of the Zealots at Masada, conditions stabilized in the Land of Israel. For nearly sixty years, the Romans r ...
two of the five city districts had large numbers of Jews. Most Jews in Alexandria were artisans, and a few were wealthy merchant ...
the face of pagan criticisms of Judaism as a godless, antisocial religion, Philo offered a threefold defense. He argued that Jew ...
Judaism and Christianity in conflict The emergence of Christianity as a major western religion, and as the domi- nant religion o ...
Like other Jewish sects, early Christians referred to the Hebrew Bible for legitimacy. They reinterpreted the notion of a “new c ...
believed that the observance of the law and acceptance of the oral tradition was the medium of salvation, he could not have acce ...
Constantine. In 313, Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which redefined Christianity as the official religion of the empire. ...
view of John Chrysostum survived as a countercurrent to the notion of tolera- tion. Nonetheless, by the beginning of the fifth c ...
During the first millennium C.E., Rabbinic Judaism expanded and devel- oped from the religion of a small Jewish scholarly elite ...
There were, of course, subtle differences between the Pharisees and the rab- bis. The Pharisaic oral tradition was a loose assem ...
Abraham, while contemplating the sun, moon, and other natural phenomena as all-powerful, only to see each one “fall” from omnipo ...
That Tannaitic teachings remained dynamic and never stagnated owed in no small part to the emergence in the first century B.C.E. ...
of the law, as opposed to the Hillelite concern with both the letter and the spirit of the law and its social and emotional affe ...
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