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Book Review | Demonic Desires

Shai Secunda

The lustful demon of the Babylonian Talmud gamely withstands all scholarly attempts at rehabilitation Shai Secunda Demonic Desires“Yetzer Hara” and the Problem of Evil in Late Antiquity Ishay Rosen-ZviUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 2011, 280 pages...

AntiquityBook ReviewsColumnsIssue 10 | April 2012Middle EastReligions

Winning the Race – New Israel

Assaf Malach

The Christian kingdoms of medieval Europe found inspiration for their national vision in the biblical narrative of God’s chosen race Assaf Malach In 1523, a Christian scribe copying a Russian translation of Psalms noted, in...

ArticlesEuropeIssue 10 | April 2012Medieval PeriodReligions

The Samaritan Stories

Zeev H. Ehrlich

Back to the article Sacrifice in Samaria – Samaritans Cuthites from the Tribe of Benjamin | The creed of the Holy Mountain | Similar but Different – the Samaritan Calendar | Matchmakers’ Night Zeev H....

Issue 10 | April 2012Jewish CommunitiesLand of IsraelPost-1948Religions

Hasmonean Palaces

Eyal Regev

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...

AntiquityArticlesHanukkahIssue 45 | November 2018Land of IsraelReligions

Past Present – Ultra-Orthodox Holocaust Commemoration

Michal Shaul

Although ultra-Orthodox Israelis don’t stand as the siren blares on Holocaust Memorial Day, the memory of European Jewry’s destruction continues to shape their community Michal Shaul Looking on from the sidelines, one might think Israel’s...

20th centuryArticlesHolocaust dayIssue 69 | June 2024Land of IsraelReligions

From Temple to Talmud – Post-Temple Judaism

Yair Furstenberg

Rabbinic Judaism is often described as having developed in reaction to the loss of the Temple and its sacrificial ritual. Certainly, the sages of the period were responding to some kind of crisis. But was...

AntiquityArticlesIssue 69 | June 2024JerusalemLand of IsraelReligions

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From Temple to Talmud – Post-Temple Judaism

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