Hellenism and Judaism

Suddenly in the year 331 B.C. There burst upon these little people living in seclusion in the Persian Empire the full tide of Hellenism. Bust of Alexander the Great. Animated map showing the conquest of Alexander the Great. Now the Jews found themselves surrounded by the finest sculptures the world had ever seen. To the Jews any graven images were forbidden. Ruins of Palmyra, a little north of Palestine, showing the Greek architecture of columns. Shows the narrow twisted streets of Jerusalem. Shows Jewish coin with no graven images of a person on the coin. Animated map showing the Roman Empire In 63 BC after the Roman General Pompey took Jerusalem as a conqueror. Shows the great size of Roman structures and largest building stones in the world.