Hellenism

"The monastery's property is being seized and expropriated. This spiritual beacon of Orthodoxy and Hellenism is now facing an existential threat," he said in a statement.

He struggles with a physical disability and he goes to great lengths to paper over the shortcomings of a similarly disabled Ph.D. student named Charles Walker, whose subject is Shelley’s Hellenism.

Conflicts between traditional Jews and those influenced by Hellenism led to tensions, and Jewish rebels took up arms in 167 B.C.

Thanks to new tools and techniques, the glories of Hellenism could be commodified and commercialized.

Today, the Maccabees are extolled for having put a hard stop, after their recapture of Jerusalem in 164 B.C., to Hellenism’s threat to swallow traditional Judaism.