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The Torah describes Phinehas as a zealot, who kills Zimri in an act of vigilante fervor, and is rewarded by God with eternal priesthood. Anticipating the rabbis’ discomfort with Phinehas’ vigilantism, Josephus transforms Phinehas into a military general and Zimri’s sin into a dangerous sedition requiring a military response.
Dr.
Yonatan Miller
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Dr.
Malka Zeiger Simkovich
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When and why washing became immersion: between traditional-rabbinic and scientific-critical approaches to the origin of immersion and the mikveh.[1]
Dr.
Yonatan Adler
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A Surprising Look at Shabbat in the Second Temple Period
Dr.
Malka Zeiger Simkovich
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