Sample Sources
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.
Burying the Slain of Beitar
R. Huna said: From the time when the slain from Beitar were allowed to be buried, the [blessing] “The One who is good and does good” was established. “Good”: that [the slain were not allowed to] decay…
Pharisees on Fate and the Afterlife
Now, as for the Pharisees, they live simply and forgo luxurious foods, and they follow conduct directed by doctrine and do what their doctrine prescribes as good for them, and they believe they should…
The Temple Scroll
[And on the four]teenth day of the first month, [at twilight,] they [will celebrate] [the Passover of yhwh] and they will perform sacrifice; prior to the evening offering, they will…
Eating with Defiled Hands
Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them…
Warning against Imposed Regulations
Therefore do not let anyone condemn you in matters of food and drink or of observing festivals, new moons, or sabbaths. These are only a shadow of what is to come, but the substance belongs to…
The Zealots Install a New High Priest
In the end the people were reduced to such a state of abject fear, and the terrorists proceeded to such manic extremes, that they were actually able to take into their own hands the election of high…
Hasmoneans Send Emissaries to Rome
So Judah chose Eupolemus son of John son of Accos, and Jason son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome to establish friendship and alliance, and to free themselves from the yoke; for they…
The Laws of Moses
Now before their first state of mourning had ended, another misfortune struck them as well; for some of those who had raised the previous rebellion, when they were traveling on the public road, about…
Scribes as Tax-Exempt Temple Administrators
I would also have the work about the Temple finished, and the porticoes, and if there be anything else that ought to be built. And as for the materials of wood, let them be brought down from Judaea…
The Qumran Community as Temple
[ . . . ] When these things exist in Israel the Community council shall be founded on truth, to be an everlasting plantation, a holy house for Israel and the foundation of the holy of hol…
Conflict within the Priesthood
Around this time, King Agrippa granted the high priesthood to Ismael, the son of Fabi. And then hostility and internal division were ignited between the chief priests, on one side, and the priests and…
The Priests as False Stewards
You, priests, take the keys of the sanctuary,
and cast them to the highest heaven,
and give them to the Lord and say,
“Guard your house yourself,
because, behold, we have been found to be false…