Still reeling from the horrors of violent fascism and extreme nationalism, humanity has grown enamored of a universal self-conception that denies meaningful differences of race, religion, or culture.

Hanukkah focusses on the Maccabean struggle for freedom of religion in the second century BCE against the idolatry of the Syrian Greeks, ruled by Antiochus Epiphanes. (Natalia Ganelin / Getty Images) ...

This is Hanukkah season. In Hebrew schools across the country the Hanukkah story will be told, and the story usually goes like this: The wicked king Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked the innocent and ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Hellenism and the Jewish World of Antiquity Chapter I Hellenism and the Jewish ...

"The Books of Andronicus Callistus, 1475-76" Andronicus Callistus was one of the most able Greek scholars of his day. This paper examines the period between Callistus’ departure from Florence in March ...

Hanukkah celebrates our national renaissance. Sadly, the Second Temple never matched the splendor of the First Temple, and many who had been exiled at its destruction remained in Persia or Alexandria ...