1[?]-8).” Pages 297-316 in Ancient Jewish Prayers and Emotions: A Study of the Emotions Associated with Prayer in the Jewish and Related Literature of the Second Temple Period. Edited by Renate ...

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Instead, the archaeologists — budding and not — last summer uncovered what may be the oldest existing example in the ancient Roman world of a mikvah, a Jewish ritual bath. They have ...

Synagogues were classified as colleges to get around Roman laws banning secret societies and the temples were allowed to collect the yearly tax paid by all Jewish men for temple maintenance.

Israeli police officers restrain Jewish activists protesting the Waqf control on the Temple Mount ... its significance as the location of the ancient Jewish Temples destroyed by the Babylonians ...