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Between the Lines: Author Conversations from the Library of JTS

Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It

October 10, 2016

Judaism as we know it is a western Roman religion, argues Rabbi Burton Visotzky. Yes, the very empire that destroyed the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE served as the culture in which Judaism was nurtured and became the religion of the rabbis that we still cele

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Aphrodite and the Rabbis: How the Jews Adapted Roman Culture to Create Judaism as We Know It

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