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Though I'm not sure this question is on-topic for this site, the Talmud in Gittin 56b tells us that during the Siege of Jerusalem, Rabban Yochanan ben Zakai sneaked out of the city, met with Vespasian …

According to Rabbi Yehudah Leib Maimon in Sefer Zikaron Leshlomo Meir Sali, this is a reference to some Sephardic Jews living in Eretz Yisrael who would inform on the Jews who came to live in Yisrael, …

According to Dr. Yisrael Ben Ze'ev in his book "The Jews in Arabia" (היהודים בערב), pg. 111, note 13, there was no Jewish community in Mecca during the time of Muhammad, most likely because it was way …

Da'at Mikrah write in their introduction to the Book of Jeremiah: "...Instead of him [=King Yehoachaz], appointed Nekho Eliakim ben Yoshiyahu, who agreed, it seems, to be subject to Egypt, and even c …

Rabbi Philip Biberfeld in Universal Jewish History, writes: The Sinites. A passage of the prophet Isaiah shows that they are obviously the Chinese. …

Rambam writes in his Introduction to his Commentary on the Mishna: "And when Yehoshua bin Nun, peace be upon him, died, he taught the elders that which he received of the [Torah's oral] explanatio …

Found it. As I previously wrote in the comments, a vast number of the Vaad's letters were published by Yisrael Halperin in פנקס ועד ארבע ארצות (Pinkas Vaad Arba Aratzot). As it happens, I'm looking fo …

According to Jonathan Bourgel in his essay "The Samaritans during the Hasmonean Period: The Affirmation of a Discrete Identity?", there isn't any strong evidence for either option at the moment. On on …

Based on things I read recently, I think I can now expound on what I wrote in the comments last year. I'll explain what I believe the mishna in Sotah 3:4 means, which from I gathered, is easily misund …

Prof. Shmuel Safrai (according to Prof. David Flusser in "Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Era", pg. 116) and Rabbi Shmuel Klein (in The Land of Judea, pg. 101) both thought that the following mi …

Emanuel Tov in part 2 of his series of articles on the history of the Masoretic Text (abbreviated MT): "No complete proto-MT scrolls have been found; just partial scrolls and fragments. …

As it happens, I'm now in the middle of reading a book called "Mevo Lekitvei Hakodesh" (Introduction to the Holy Scriptures) by Shmuel Shrira, which discusses the creation and canonization of the Scri …

For example, Rabbi Alexander Hool in Pharaoh: Biblical History, Egypt and the Missing Millennium argues for Pharaoh Thutmose II. … Mitchell First brings a vast majority of the various opinions in his book Jewish History In Conflict (parts of it can be read here). …

This understanding of the verses in Hoshea loses sight of the framework of the first chapters of Hoshea. As the Talmud in Pesachim 87 put it (emphasis mine): "The Holy One, Blessed be He, said to Hos …

Note: Most of this stuff was explained to me by one of my history professors. …