Hasmonean Palaces
Did the later Hasmoneans really become Hellenized, as many have theorized? Or were they like their palaces – Hellenist on the outside but Jewish within? The Hasmoneans were among the first to struggle to forge...
Prof. Eyal Regev, A specialist in Second Temple social and religious history, Regev is director of the Helena and Paul Schulmann School for Basic Jewish Studies at Bar-Ilan University's Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology