What the Maccabees called their enemies reveals much about how both cultures saw themselves and what the conflict between them meant for the world.
What Jews got right and the Greeks got wrong.
Worshipping the Greeks at the expense of the Jews.
Built for launching a campaign against Egypt.
Could it because they lacked a national identity?
Aphrodite and the Rabbis.
The first universal morality.
What Seleucid inscriptions tell us.
Divine law vs. natural law.
An unresolved archaeological controversy.
A common, but false, dichotomy.
Climate change, drought, earthquakes, invasions, rebellions.