Inter-Testamental

Beginning in the 3rd century BC in Alexandria, Jewish scholars translated the Hebrew scriptures into Greek. The Septuagint became the Bible …

From 167 to 160 BC, a Jewish priestly family led an armed revolt against the Seleucid king Antiochus IV, who had banned Torah observance and…

For roughly a century after 140 BC, descendants of the Maccabees ruled an independent Jewish state from Jerusalem as both high priests and, …

During and after the Babylonian exile, with the Temple destroyed and the people scattered, Jewish communities began to gather weekly for pra…

In the Hasmonean and Roman centuries, three movements crystallized within Judaism: the Pharisees, focused on Torah piety; the Sadducees, dra…

In 63 BC, called in to arbitrate a Hasmonean civil war, the Roman general Pompey stormed Jerusalem, entered the Temple's Most Holy Place, an…