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A second passage in chapter 7 happens after the appointment of Alcimus as the new High Priest of Israel by the new Seleucid King Demetrius I Soter. This was in a later phase of the struggle, around 161 BCE, when the Seleucids had repealed the most onerous of the anti-Jewish decrees and were working to restore calm to the restive province.
Hellenistic Judaism was a form of Judaism in classical antiquity that combined Jewish religious tradition with elements of Hellenistic culture and religion. Until the early Muslim conquests of the eastern Mediterranean, the main centers of Hellenistic Judaism were Alexandria in Egypt and Antioch in Syria (modern-day Turkey), the two main Greek urban settlements of the Middle East and North ...
A rural Jewish priest from Modein, Mattathias (Hebrew: Matityahu) of the Hasmonean family, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid Empire by refusing to worship the Greek gods at Modein's new altar. Mattathias killed a Jew who had stepped forward to take Mattathias' place in sacrificing to an idol as well as the Greek officer who was sent to ...
He was a member of the doctoral faculty at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York (GSUC). He is the author of No Offense: Civil Religion and Protestant Taste (1978) and The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss and the Jewish Struggle with Modernity (1974), two books in the sociology of religion .
Samuel G. Freedman Jew vs. Jew: The Struggle for the Soul of American Jewry New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000; Gurock, Jeffrey S. "From Fluidity to Rigidity: The Religious Worlds of Conservative and Orthodox Jews in Twentieth Century America", David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs, University of Michigan, 2000.
Hellenistic Civilization and the Jews. 1959. {Review by Moses Hadas} Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum. Vol. 1–2 with Alexander Fuks (1957-1960). Tcherikover was succeeded for the third volume (1963) by Menahem Stern.
A National Right to Work Foundation news release said that “the final brief has been submitted urging the U.S. Supreme Court to hear six City University of New York (CUNY) professors’ Firs
Footsteps was founded in December 2003, by Malkie Schwartz, a former Chabad Hasid from Crown Heights, while enrolled as a student at Hunter College in New York City. According to Schwartz, 20 people showed up to the first meeting, announced on flyers around the Hunter campus and through word of mouth. [ 4 ]