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In the Talmud, the Fall of a Priestly Upper Class Is Just Deserts
Biblical examples of righteousness and wickedness show that in Judaism, goodness remains possible and divine
Reconstructing the Life of the Temple and Its All-Too-Human Denizens
In the Talmud’s descriptions of self-glorifying and self-enriching Temple priests, lessons for today’s public officials
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How a British Museum Curator Discovered Noah’s Ark Would Have Been Round
Irving Finkel, an expert on ancient Mesopotamia, decodes a Babylonian tablet and traces its path to the Book of Genesis
After the Holocaust, the Dutch Tried To Collect Past Due Taxes From Survivors
How one shy, whistle-blowing intern in an Amsterdam archive uncovered a travesty that insulted a decimated community
Centuries Ago, Jews Were Farmers Like Everybody Else. Why Did They Leave the Fields?
Two economists argue that literacy, not laws forbidding land ownership, created a small, widely dispersed and highly skilled minority
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