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The sources below are those contained in our three curated collections—covering themes of Passover, Gender Roles, and Holocaust Resistance. They represent a fraction of the thousands of sources that will be available when the full site launches in 2024.
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Olympic Games

Because of this, Herod departed even more from the ancestral customs and gradually corrupted the ancient way of life, which should have been inviolable, through the introduction of foreign practices…

Josephus Rescued from the City

Meanwhile Josephus, still insistently going round outside the city to reiterate his appeals, was struck on the head by a stone and dropped senseless on the spot. The Jews made a dash for his body, and…

King Yannai and the Pharisees

[I]‌t was taught: It once happened that King Yannai [Janneus] went to Kokhalit in the desert and conquered sixty towns there. On his return he rejoiced exceedingly and invited all the Sages of Israel…

Rabban Gamaliel Is Deposed

There was a case in which a certain student came and asked R. Joshua, “What is the law concerning the evening prayer?” [R. Joshua] said to him, “It is optional.” [The student] went and asked Rabban…

Pesher Habakkuk

[And justice does not emerge as the winner, for the evildoer accos]ts the upright man (Habakkuk 1:4). [Its interpretation: the evildoer is…

True Law

As we have just mentioned the passage about Peter and those who taught Christianity to people of the circumcision, I do not think it out of place to quote a certain utterance of Jesus from John’s…

Roman Jews Mourn Julius Caesar

At the height of the public grief a throng of foreigners went about lamenting each after the fashion of his country, above all the Jews, who even flocked to the place for several successive nights.