For centuries, the people of Judaea had seen many foreign dynasts claim hegemony over them; the Greeks were but the latest.

At the heart of Myers’ book is a chapter that Rawidowicz wrote as a coda to his Hebrew tome, "Babylon and Jerusalem," (1957) but never published. In it, Rawidowicz shifted his decades-long ...

The books of the Old Testament recount the exile of the Jews to Babylon following the sack of Jerusalem, by whose waters they “sat down and wept.” By the time of the New Testament, the city ...