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Our scene opens with a figure named, well, he’s not named in the text. But he's in a tight spot. He's just heard some pretty bad news. He’s "confounded and discouraged," as the tex...
Sometimes, the story is right there in the history books... well, maybe "history books" isn't quite the right term here. Let's turn our attention to Judas Maccabeus and his brother...
We often focus on the oil lasting for eight nights, and rightfully so. But behind that miracle, there were real people, real battles, and real decisions that shaped the course of J...
Gold, jewels, artifacts of unimaginable beauty... Where did they all go? Sometimes, the answer lies hidden in the stories we think we know. Take, for example, the tale we find in t...
A time when a small group of people stared down an empire and refused to back down. We're diving into the story of the Maccabees, specifically from the Book of Maccabees I, chapter...
Bacchides, a Syrian general, having installed Alcimus in charge, heads back to the king. It seems like a moment of relative calm, but beneath the surface, things are far from peace...
Judas Maccabeus and his band of rebels are gaining ground. They're pushing back against the Seleucid Empire, who were trying to Hellenize Judea – basically, force Greek culture and...
He's got a whole Syrian army backing him up. Now, contrast that with Judas. He’s not exactly bringing a battalion to this battle. He's in Adasa with just three thousand men. Three....
But that feeling is what drove the Maccabees to do something truly audacious, something we still talk about today. The First Book of Maccabees, a historical text not included in th...
