Doorposts and Gates: How Jews Have Subdivided Themselves Through History
Historiansplaining: A historian tells you why everything you know is wrong
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Are You a Hellenizer or a Judaizer?
The macabe revolt was an incident, where people were forced to take sides. Are you a hellenizer or judaizer? And the macabes manage to succeed in retaking control of jerusalem. By that time, there was beginning to be more and more of a jewish diaspira. You had jews saying, you know, judea, it's pretty poor. It's kind of backwards. If you really want to make it, if you want to prosper and experience the world, you go to alexandria or rome. The romans didn't do judea like they did britannia. They didn't send in
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