Lasker’s book offers an extremely well-researched introduction to the relatively unknown and un-researched branch of Jewish history that includes Karaite Jewry and its texts, commentaries and records
In my previous Free Inquiry, article, “Jesus: What’s the Evidence?” (August/September 2011), I noted that the Jesus of the earliest extant Chri stian literature is fundamentally a supernatural personage. By “the earliest extant Christian literature,” I mean the early Epistles, including those mo .
Take a walk in the lush hills just outside Jerusalem, where structures of a kibbutz from pre-state Israel and an ancient Hasmonean fortress sit together among the wildflowers
<p>Hanukkah is almost unique as a religious holiday in having a very solid basis in historical events; and although the holiday and the conflict it commemorates may seem minor, their impact was enormous for world events in the ensuing centuries. </p>