Byzantine empire Quote by Phyllis Goldstein

“In this age of empires, Jews’ insistence on maintaining their own religion and their own cultural traditions made them outsiders in both the Persian…

— Phyllis Goldstein

“We are conquering you for your own benefit,’ said the Persians.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The conquest of the land of Canaan was accompanied with so many wonderful and so many bloody circumstances, that the victorious Jews were left…

— Edward Gibbon

“In Jerusalem, the Persians, with the help of their Jewish allies, murdered about 60,000 Christians and sold 35,000 into slavery. It was a horrible…

— Phyllis Goldstein

While Leonidas was preparing to make his stand, a Persian envoy arrived. The envoy explained to Leonidas the futility of trying to resist the…

— Plutarch

“so many Jews in Alexandria spoke only Greek that the Hebrew Scriptures were translated into Greek for their benefit. Yet they remained Jews.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“All the great Semitic migrations had their starting-place in Arabia.”

— James John Courtenay

“If the Jews were Hellenized, it must be remembered that the Greeks were Aramaized.”

— James John Courtenay

“Then they turned away from each other to walk into the crowd, meet new people, and become the citizens of the Empire they were…

— Claudia Gray

“He tells us how the Persians were felled, how the Romans collapsed because their rulers forgot how their parents gained them an empire. He…

— Pierce Brown

“Ironically, their shocking success also awakened the very forces that eventually would marginalize them within the empire they had created.”

— Sven Beckert

“Only a few places allowed Jews to settle openly and in large numbers. Among them were Italy, particularly the Papal States (territories controlled by…

— Phyllis Goldstein