The sudden political developments in Syria have the Greek community and Orthodox Christians on alert, asking for the support of Greece and the international community ...
The Israel Defense Forces has established its first ultra-Orthodox underground aircraft maintenance facility, for the “Scorpion” Squadron located at the Ramat David Airbase in the Jezreel Valley.
The IDF wants to capitalize on the symbolism. The Hasmonean Dynasty began after the Jews threw off the yoke of Hellenistic rule in the Maccabean Revolt (167 to 141 BCE) against the Seleucid Empire, ...
2 In whatever way one judges the detailed exegesis of Origen and Ambrose, its deepest basis was neither Hellenistic allegory ... very different from that of Judaism, “corresponds nevertheless ...
In Persia, Nehemiah was the cup-bearer to King Artaxerxes. Jews settled all over the Hellenistic world, from Antioch to Rhodes, cultivating communities and flowering in unknown environments.
The Fourth Gospel knows a definite, fundamental Palestinian-Jewish stratum, from which it then passes over to a general, oriental-Hellenistic thought-form. There is good reason to be cautious in ...