Readers lamented the societal pressures, gender inequities, and marketing ploys encouraging women to drink. “Masking hardship ...
Also displayed is a tattered papyrus scrap from the third century A.D., containing the earliest surviving text of the first five verses of Genesis from the Greek translation of the Bible, known as the ...
Neither that practice nor the name "Purim" itsef appear in the earlier version of the Book of Esther, which we know from the Greek translation in the Septuagint, dating from the second century BCE. Of ...