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Friday, February 17, 2023

Coins and the date Judaism emerged

NUMISMATICS: Coins Provide Key Evidence in Historic Origins of Judaism (David Hendin, American Numismatic Society via CoinWeek).

The bulk of this article summarizes Professor Yonatan Adler's case for the late origin of Torah-observant Judaism. See also here and here. But keep reading and it does get to the coin evidence in some detail.

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