Recently unveiled ancient clay tablets have provided scholars a rare glimpse into Jewish life during the Babylonian exile. Discovered by archaeologists two years ago, the tablets went on display to ...

Introduction: Towards a New History of Jews and the Sasanian Empire -- Jewish Society under Sasanian Rule: From Isolation to Integration -- Competing for Power: Jewish Elites and Sasanian Culture -- ...

Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion today drew a parallel between the declaration by the Persian King Cyrus permitting the Babylonian Jews to return to Palestine in the sixth century B. C. E. and the ...

(JTA) — Rabbi Neil Danzig, a longtime professor of rabbinics at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York and an authority on the post-Talmudic Babylonian scholars known as the Geonim, died July 4.

The narrow, dusty streets of what was once Baghdad’s thriving Jewish quarter, called Betaween, are quiet on the mild spring morning. I visited them with Emad Levy, one of the last remaining Jews in ...

The newly religious rapper is enamored of Nebuchadnezzar, a king who burned down the first Jewish temple in 586 BCE. Last month, West released a gospel-infused album titled “Jesus is King,” on which ...

JERUSALEM — A new exhibition of ancient clay tablets discovered in modern-day Iraq is shedding light for the first time on the daily life of Jews exiled to Babylon 2,500 years ago. The exhibition is ...

Reporting from Hamburg, Germany — For whatever reason — a worry about looming dystopia, perhaps — Germany is having its Babylonian moment. Major new opera productions here in Hamburg and in Berlin ...

The history of the Jewish people is one of glory, oppression, migration, persecution and survival. Perhaps the only explanation for this tenacity, a refusal to stay down against all odds, is that the ...