Rabbi Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Judaic studies, Vered Noam’s Shifting Images of the Hasmoneans: Second Temple Legends and Their Reception in Josephus and Rabinnic Literature as part of a collaboration between the Jewish Book Council and 17³Ô¹Ï for . Dr. Hidari’s most recent book is Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash (Cambridge University Press, 2017).