Author: Jonathan Klawans

Ancient Jewish sacrifice has long been misunderstood. Some find in sacrifice the key to the mysterious and violent origins of human culture. Others...

This book examines the ways in which two distinct biblical conceptions of impurity-"ritual" and "moral"-were interpreted in the Hebrew Bible, the D...

Much has been written about ritual impurity in ancient Judaism, but the question of how the ancient Jews understood the relationship between defile...

Jonathan Klawans's Josephus and the Theologies of Ancient Judaism cuts against the grain of rabbinic studies to establish the value of Flavius Jose...

Though considered one of the most important informants about Judaism in the first century CE, the Jewish historian Flavius Josephus's testimony is ...