The eight-day Jewish festival of Hanukkah commemorates ancient Jews’ victory over the powerful Seleucid empire, which ruled much of the Middle East from the third century B.C. to the first […]
Alan Avery-Peck
Alan Avery-Peck is a Kraft-Hiatt Professor in Judaic Studies at the College of the Holy Cross. He specializes in Judaic studies, the history and literature of early Rabbinic Judaism, and the Hebrew language.