The top find of 2023 according to National Geographic are four Roman-era swords discovered in a cave near the Dead Sea in Israel. Ariel...

The pietists and their affiliated groups who ultimately came to be subsumed under the general term of Pharisees, continued the tradition...

Who were the Pharisees? The Pharisees were the bearers of the ancient tradition of Torah interpretation which had been brought from...

In the course of time the Sadducees developed a political-religious philosophy of Judaism which was rooted in the statements in the books...

After describing the garments that the priests should wear in their service and other details that pertain to the priests alone, he goes...

There is no more powerful assertion of the divinely ordained authority of the Tzadukian priesthood than that stated in the Book of the...

But while the Hellenistic priests who had been ousted from their positions of leadership in the Temple by the Maccabees no longer...

Another family in the priestly line of descent from Aaron was that of the Kohanim of Modi'in, whose patriarch was Mattityahu. They too...

Let us examine the status of the Kohanim, the priests who functioned in the Temple and performed its rituals and ceremonies. All of this...

The Temple in Jerusalem was rebuilt during the reign of the Persian Emperors sometime between 500 and 450 B.C.E. Those who planned the...

Now concerning the Pharisees, they live simply and have no desire for luxury. They follow the conduct of reason and respect their elders....

The Sanhedrin. The Sanhedrin was the Supreme Court of the Jewish Nation. Its authority extended over the entire Jewish world, from east...

Jewish life throughout the world, including the Roman Empire continued to be bound together by several elements which distinguished the...

Gradually, a migration of Jews to Rome and Italy began shortly after this time. It is interesting to note that the first generation of...

The Rise of the Roman Empire. The history of the Roman Empire is a fascinating study in the skillful interplay of the two faces of the...

In the course of time there were other families of Kohanim in Israel, but for centuries the only family who served in the Temple and of...

To understand the basis of the conflict between the Tzedukkim and the Perushim, a conflict which is referred to in the Talmud and the...

1Brown, Briggs and Driver, Dictionary of the Old Testament 2Apollodorus, The Library, vol. II, vii, 2 (Loeb Classical Library, vol. I, p....

When we come to the age of Hanokh, the seventh on the list, we read that his life on earth is given as 365 years. But the account of...

When we now look at the seventh name in the biblical list, we find that his name is Hanokh, which in Hebrew means "The learned one." This...