What does a smart-mouthed character on a television cartoon series have to do with a Greek philosopher who died around 2,300 years ago? Maybe a philosophical outlook, says Greg Salyer, an associate ...

This is Hanukkah season. In Hebrew schools across the country the Hanukkah story will be told, and the story usually goes like this: The wicked king Antiochus IV Epiphanes attacked the innocent and ...

Can you give just a general definition of what's meant by the term the Hellenistic world? The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the ...

Big Fun on the Bayou correspondent Angie Pitre had the chance to chat one-on-one with Monte Plaisance, 40, a Lockport native who is an author of occult books, a Hellenist and a lecturer. Monte, how ...

Vol. 46, No. 1, Problems of Matter and Evil in the (Neo)Platonic Tradition (Feb., 2001), pp. 93-104 (12 pages) Founded in 1955, Phronesis has become the most authoritative scholarly journal for the ...

The Jewish people have fought many battles in their long history, some accompanied by miracles (such as the walls that fell at Jericho and the sun that stood still at Givon). Why was only the ...

The Midrash records that Reish Lakish (Rabbi Shimon ben Lakish) homiletically explained the first few moments of Creation to be a microcosm of all subsequent history: “In the beginning, G-d created ...