Yonatan Adler posits a convincing thesis, tightly and compellingly argued, that widespread observance of Pentateuchal legislation by Judeans—or what we now call Judaism—emerged no earlier than the ...
A film about the origins of Judaism will air next month on public television. “Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites” traces the biblical saga beginning with the Babylonian Exile in 586 B.C.E.