Late Antiquity “What makes the Second Temple period so unique is that much of its literature sees no need for hard distinctions between religious communities” Author Drew Kaplan Date 10 October 2016 Many Jews in the Second Temple period believed that Israel shares a special relationship...
Sex, Shabbat, Talmud “How did it happen that some Second Temple sources define piety as abstaining from sex on Shabbat, but that the Rabbis defined Shabbat by the embrace of this very activity?” Author Drew Kaplan Date 1 July 2015 How did it happen that some Second Temple sources define piety as abstaining from...
New Testament “Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New Testament unaware it is permeated with Jewish ideas and images” Author Drew Kaplan Date 25 January 2015 Most Jews fear to read the New Testament, and most Christians read the New...