Ancient Jew Review is thankful for our community of contributors and readers invested in learning about Jews and their neighbors in the ancient world. For the year of 2023, these are our ten most-read pieces published this year:

A Brief History of the Hebrew Israelites by Andrew Tobolowsky, an essay about the origins and development of Hebrew Israeliteism.
How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible by Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg, a publication preview of Wollenberg's new book.
Dead Words and Haunting Melody: Unexpected Influences by Seth Sanders, an article about the ways music shapes his scholarship.
How I Give Oral Finals by Krista Dalton, a pedagogy article on the goals and benefits of oral examination.
Monopoly and Biblical Studies by Marc Brettler, a pedagogy article about introducing historical-critical methods.
Transing the Talmud or Reading the Talmud "Badly" by Max K. Strassfeld, a publication preview of Strassfeld's new book.
"They Shall Teach Your Statues to Jacob": Priests, Scribes, and Sages in Second Temple Times by Steven Fraade, an article originally written in 1988 but now featured on AJR.
The Critical Potential of Spirits: Hebrew Philology, the Poetics of Relation, and Unfamiliar Selves by Ingrid E. Lilly, from the 2022 Society of Biblical Literatures’s forum on Unfamiliar Selves in the Hebrew Bible.
Multilingualism and Translation in Ancient Judaism by Steven Fraade, a publication preview of Fraade's latest book.
Teaching Abortion in Bible and Religious Studies Courses by Eric J. Harvey, a pedagogy article on resources and methods for approaching this topic in the classroom.

And our top three most read articles published since our founding in 2014:

An Introduction to Toledot Yeshu by Mika Ahuvia from 2014.
Introducing the Hebrew Bible and the History of Ancient Israel by Andrew Tobolowsky from 2019.
Covenant without Circumcision? What to Do with a Woman by Jill Hicks-Keeton from 2018.