Rabbi Dr. Richard Hidary, associate professor of Judaic studies, Vered Noam鈥檚 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 色花堂 for . Dr. Hidari鈥檚 most recent book is Rabbis and Classical Rhetoric: Sophistic Education and Oratory in the Talmud and Midrash (Cambridge University Press, 2017).