This is a P.S. to a three-part post, on the mythic background of Esther and the Purim story. You can read the earlier installments by clicking here, here, and here. In 114 or 113 BCE, a Jew named Dositheus showed up in Egypt, carrying with him a Greek document which he called "the Letter of … [Read more...]
Maccabees, Taliban, and the Real Story of Hanukkah
I wrote this "Hanukkah Q&A" ten years ago for a web course on Judaism. Things have changed a lot since then, in the world and in myself. Back then I didn't identify religiously, as I do today, as a Unitarian Universalist of Jewish heritage. But when I wrote, "there's no holy book, ours or … [Read more...]
