A rare intact Hellenistic estate at Khirbet el-Eika in Eastern Galilee was likely abandoned by its inhabitant as Yonatan ...

With this perspective in-mind it must be particularly galling for parents in Israel seeing children not making the same ...

and fought a civil war which prompted Rome to make Israel its vassal state. Secular pre-state Zionists inclined to this view, taking the Maccabees as inspiration and, as Marc Spiro in his ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... At the time of 1 Macc, the land of Israel was caught in the crossfire of the ancient Greek empires. 1 Macc begins with the death of Alexander ...