The Great Mysteries of Judaism

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In this book, the second in the second volume, the Iraqi historian Fadhil al-Rubaie revisits the issue of the great mysteries in the Jewish Torah (not the Torah of the Children of Israel), that is, what is known today as the Tanakh (the Torah of the Prophets and Writers), to unravel the enigmas that have perplexed historians. For example, who was the tribe of Ben-Jamun, the smallest of the tribes of the Children of Israel? And why did they slaughter it, destroying all the foundations of its existence as an organized community? Who was Samson the mighty who destroyed the Temple, and which Temple? What is the connection between the conflict between Samson and Delilah and the conflict that took place in Yemen over the solar and lunar calendars? Who was Jephthah the Gileadite who threw his daughter from the mountain as a sacrifice to the gods? Is it conceivable that the Jews practiced the custom of female infanticide, and that later Muslims used the biblical story to prove that infanticide was a religious tradition known to the ancient Arabs? Who is Delilah in the Torah, and what is her connection to the lunar calendar? Who were the judges of the Children of Israel, and when did they appear? Al-Rubaie dissects many mysteries to reconstruct the historical narrative.