jewish history

Let's say that Antiochus III decides that an intervention in Greece on behalf of the Aetolian League is likely a bad idea and instead focuses on strengthening his authority in Anatolia and the Near East instead, hopefully avoiding open conflict with Rome. If this was so, was a Maccabee style...

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IOTL, Mizrahi Jews didn't identify as a separate subgroup until after the establishment of Israel. Your challenge is to have a Mizrahi Jewish identity come into being before 1900.

Contrary to popular belief, there's nothing inherently against proselytization in Judaism. Once upon a time, Jews did proselytize. So what happened? Negative legal consequences - up to and including mass executions - as punishment for trying to spread Judaism. Christian and Muslim empires...

One particularly infamous and long-lasting anti-Semitic canard is the "blood libel", the idea that Jews commit acts of human sacrifice and consume the blood of the victim (never mind the fact that blood, human or otherwise, isn't kosher). Dating back to at least the 1st century BCE, the blood...

Throughout history, Jews have experienced a huge number of forced mass expulsions. They were compelled to leave cities, regions, and even entire countries. Your challenge is to prevent at least one of these expulsions from happening.

Considering how enormously influential the Abrahamic religions are worldwide, you'd think there would be more analysis of how changes in the history of Jews and Judaism might affect things. So with that in mind, does anyone have any interesting ancient history PODs involving the Jewish people...

The Babylonian captivity (also known as the Babylonian exile) was one of the defining periods in Jewish history. While archaeological evidence indicates that not all Judeans were deported, the Babylonian captivity was nevertheless an event that caused permanent changes to the Jewish people as a...

What if instead of being exiled to Babylon,instead the portion of the Jewish population that would have been exiled is instead massacred by the Babylonians for noncompliance? How would this affect the development of the Jewish religion?

Ever since the Second Temple was destroyed by Titus in 70 CE, many Jews have dreamed of building a third temple on the traditional site. These wishes were seemingly granted when Hadrian promised to build a new temple. But Hadrian went back on his word, building a Colonia called Aelia Capitolina...

In 363, the Roman Emperor Julian the Apostate attempted to rebuild the Jewish Temple, likely at least partially as part of his efforts to reverse Constantine's Christianization campaign. However, the outbreak of fires forced the project's cancellation, and Christianity reasserted control over...