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Articles

• The history of Jewish Christianity in the early Roman Empire (30-135 A.D.)

  The history of Jewish Christianity is a very tragic one. During the first few years of its existence, it enjoyed an enormous growth in numbers, both in Jerusalem and in the rest of Judaea and Samaria. The early Jewish Christians of the Jerusalem Church were respected both by their countrymen and...

• Female leadership in the ancient synagogue

  Jewish women in the ancient Mediterranean lived side by side with communities in which women carried out religious functions, including ritual functions, for example, as high priestesses of the imperial cult and female functionaries in the Isis religion. Similarly, Christian women at this time acted...

• The Cyrus Cylinder

  The Cyrus Cylinder is a document issued by Cyrus the Great, consisting of a cylinder of clay inscribed in Akkadian cuneiform script. The cylinder was created in 539 BC, surely by order of Cyrus the Great, when he took Babylon from Nabonidus, ending the Neo-Babylonian empire. This document is clearly propaganda...

Illustrations

Judaism Books

• The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English Anonymous Penguin Classics (30 November 2004) Price: $12.17

• The Works of Josephus: Complete and Unabridged, New Updated Edition Flavius Josephus Hendrickson Pub (01 September 1980) Price: $10.07

• Backgrounds of Early Christianity Everett Ferguson William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company (19 August 2003) Price: $23.61

• The Gifts of the Jews: How a Tribe of Desert Nomads Changed the Way Everyone... Thomas Cahill Anchor Books/Nan A Talese (17 August 1999) Price: $10.88

• The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin... Neil Asher Silberman Touchstone (28 May 2002) Price: $10.85