, Volume 38, Number 4 KENNETH E. POMYKALA, The Davidic Dynasty Tradition in Early Judaism: its History and Significance for Messianism, Society of Biblical Literature: Early Judaism and its Literature 7 (Scholar
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The City of God, philosophical treatise vindicating Christianity, written by the medieval philosopher Saint Augustine about 413–426 CE. It was written in response to pagan claims that the sack of Rome by barbarians in 410 was one of the consequences of
This article examines the phenomenon of the so-called royal tamga signs issued on stone stelae in the Bosporan Kingdom in the 2nd and 3rd centuries CE. Tamgas were symbols commonly used by Eurasian nomads throughout the first millennium BCE. The appearance of tamgas in the northern shores ...
Maccabees, priestly family of Jews who organized a successful rebellion against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV in Judaea and restored the defiled Temple of Jerusalem. After reconsecrating the Temple, an event commemorated annually by the Hanukkah festiv
Vatican II’s Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions (Nostra aetate; Latin:“In Our Era”) is a landmark document that rejected the traditional accusation that the Jews killed Christ, recognized the legitimacy of Judaism, and condemned anti-Semitism. Furthermore, ...