Olives are served frequently in the Miriam bat Isaac novels. For example, in THE DEADLIEST HATE, Miriam’s second adventure, when she is...

Alexander’s spectacular campaigns not only won for him an empire stretching from his Greek homeland, Macedonia, to the western border of...

Miriam often refers to the comfort of Phoebe’s lavender-scented embrace. In THE DEADLIEST SPORT, Miriam tells of Phoebe’s Shabbat visits...

In THE DEADLIEST LIE, Miriam brags about living in the finest neighborhood of Alexandria: Of the three residential quarters in...

In THE DEADLIEST LIE, Aunt Hannah tells Miriam about her mother’s visit to an astrologer: “When your mother felt life quicken inside her,...

Miriam tells us in THE DEADLIEST HATE that she as well as her colleagues in the Alchemical League would face certain death if the...

After greeting me and taking my himation, Amram’s narrow-eyed, wooden-faced, doorkeeper escorted me to a padded stone bench in the...

The Plain of Sharon is the central section of Israel’s Mediterranean Coast. For Isaiah, the Plain of Sharon was the ultimate symbol of...

The Dewey Decimal System was created by Melvil Dewey in 1876 while managing the Amherst College Library. Unlike Callimachus’s system,...

Callimachus’s most famous work is the Pinakes (meaning Tables), a 120-volume bibliographic survey of the authors who works were stored...