Ancient Judaism

List of the ten plagues in Egypt.

In 1909 Louis Ginzberg wrote down the legends of the Jews in a four volume book called Legends of the Jews Bible Times and Characters. In Volume I, you may read about Bible times and characters from the Creation to Jacob.

Hebrew Names - Hebrew and Biblical Names - Meanings and Significance

What are the 12 tribes of Israel?

Contributing Writer Cynthia Astle looks at the New Testament to reveal clues about how the Jews of the New Testament era lived.

Pre-exile Judaism involved different religious practices in the family from those practiced after the Babylonian exile.

The Bible story of Moses, the Jewish lawgiver.

"Household and Family Religion in Antiquity," edited by John Bodel and Saul M. Olyan, contains information on ancient Judaism from before the time it was monotheistic.

The names of the seven archangels.

Information on the two Jewish holidaysof Pesach and Rosh Hashanah.

An E-text of the King James Version of the Old Testament Book of Deuteronomy.

The King James Version of the Exodus book of the Bible.

Herod the Great. In Antiquities of the Jews - Book XIV, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus explains how Herod the Great came to be king of the Jews.

The meaning of some popular Jewish and Biblically-based names.

Menorah is the traditional Jewish candelabrum known from the Hanukkah holiday.

The names of the Jewish and Babylonian months.

Definition of the Pentateuch.

Qumran was a region of eleven caves that yielded Hebrew biblical, sectarian, and literary scrolls. This glossary contains terms related to the scrolls.

Review of the first volume of a fictional biography of the pharaoh thought to have been alive during Moses' stint in Egypt.

What are the Ten Commandments from the Book of Exodus in the Bible?

David Instone-Brewer has made available online every published Greek, Roman, and Jewish marriage and divorce papyrus document from the period between the fourth century B.C. and the fourth century A.D.

The non-sectarian Biblical Archaeology Review covers the Old and New Testaments and controversies in archaeology, from the perspective of archaeologists but for a broad, general audience.

City College of New York economist, Morris Silver, examines the possibility that the Red Sea parted through the opening of a canal lock.

From the Ancient History Sourcebook: Edict of Augustus on Jewish Rights, 1 B.C., Strabo, The Geography, Book XVI.ii.34-38, 40, 46, c. A.D. 22, Edict of Claudius on Jewish Rights, A.D. 41, and Tacitus: From The Histories, Book V, c. A.D. 110.