Hate in ancient Near Eastern law, the Torah, and Elephantine ketubot is a legal term. If a man demotes his wife to second in rank for no fault, merely because he “hates” her, he cannot also take away her firstborn son’s right to inherit a double portion.
Prof.
Bruce Wells
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The real reason Persia’s King Darius II sent a letter to the governor of Egypt that Judean soldiers in Elephantine should keep the festival of Matzot.
Prof. Rabbi
Tamara Cohn Eskenazi
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As late as the Second Temple period, Passover and Chag HaMatzot were viewed as two separate holidays. What was the final impetus to concretize the synthesis of these holidays into one?
Dr.
Malka Z. Simkovich
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A new look at the “Passover Papyrus” from Elephantine and the nature of the Hebrew calendar in the Achaemenid Empire.
Prof.
Idan Dershowitz
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When a Temple of Yahu Stood Near a Temple of Khnum
Prof.
Jan Assmann
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Dr. Rabbi
Zev Farber
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An overview of Persian history starting from Cyrus the Great’s conquest of Media (549 B.C.E.) until Alexander the Great’s conquest of Persia (334-329 B.C.E.), including related biblical references and Jewish texts.
Dr. Rabbi
Zev Farber
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Dr.
Malka Z. Simkovich
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Two Problems In Parashat Bemidbar
Prof. Rabbi
Baruch A. Levine
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