Professor Sir Kenneth Dover was the foremost Hellenist of his generation, a skilled and authoritative interpreter of almost all the multifarious genres of ancient Greek literature. Somewhat to his ...

First, never go against the best light you have; secondly, take care that your light be not darkness. Thomas Wilson It was Eric Gruen, in his Heritage and Hellenism, who wrote that the Macabbean ...

While many people consider the Israeli left the Hellenists of today, the term more fittingly describes the Jews of the Diaspora who have the ability to move to Israel, but prefer to identify with the ...

I love Hanukkah; parts of it. The candles, the songs, the games, the gelt, the latkes. But something about this festival makes me queasy. I know why and I have to fess up; I am something of a ...

Feast of snails and pig sheds life on Hellenist life in ancient Galilee “If we look at food remains in Jewish settlements from the same period, we see very different species,” Pines, whose expertise ...

An exquisite gold ring set with a red gemstone, dating back some 2,300 years, has been unearthed beneath the floor of a Hellenistic structure in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) and ...