The genealogical information contained in the book of Nehemiah, however, suggests otherwise. The Origins of the 'Second' Temple presents a ground-breaking study which re-dates the temple to the reign ...
It is natural that people often assume that Judaism in the Second Temple period was more or less like contemporary Judaism, in which people meet weekly or even more frequently in synagogues to pray, ...
The Torah (the first five books of the Hebrew Bible, starting with Genesis ... at the time of Jesus," says Chilton. After the ...