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That’s what faced Judah Maccabee and his followers as they finally reached the Beit HaMikdash, the Holy Temple in Jerusalem. Let’s set the scene. The year is roughly 164 BCE. After...
That’s the scene unfolding before us in the Book of Maccabees I, Chapter 6. We're not talking about a ragtag bunch of rebels anymore. The Seleucid army, a force to be reckoned with...
We're diving into 1 Maccabees chapter 6 today, and it's a nail-biter. After a victory, King Antiochus, not one to admit defeat, refocuses his energy. He's got his sights set on the...
We're picking up the story with Jonathan, one of the famed Maccabee brothers, fresh off some victories and shrewd negotiations. Imagine the scene: King Alexander, recognizing Jonat...
That’s what happens when I think about the story tucked away in the Second Book of Maccabees. We find ourselves in a moment of intense persecution. The Seleucid Empire, under Antio...
And his response? A powerful and passionate defense of the Jewish people, a work we know as Against Apion. Now, the title Against Apion is a bit misleading, at least for this first...
Flavius Josephus, in his Against Apion, grapples with precisely this when he contrasts the historical record of the Jews with that of the Greeks. He points out that the Greeks them...
The historian Josephus, writing in his work Against Apion, gives us a glimpse into the Jewish perspective on this very question. He contrasts the Jewish reverence for scripture wit...
That’s precisely where Josephus found himself. Josephus, a name that echoes through the ages. He was a Jewish leader and scholar who lived in the first century CE, a time of immens...
