With Shmuel Zanvil Kahana heading the Ministry of Religious Affairs, dozens of holy sites were established in Israel. A sampling...
A quick glance at the Hasmonean kingdom and dynasty, 167BCE to 28BCE
A collection of over a thousand clay bullas from the second and third centuries BCE has been discovered at Tel...
The giant Akra fortress and its garrison of Hellenist soldiers sowed fear among Jerusalem’s Jewish residents well after Hasmonean victories...
Did the later Hasmoneans really become Hellenized, as many have theorized? Or were they like their palaces – Hellenist on...
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