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It’s a fascinating document, purporting to be written by a Greek official named Aristeas to his brother Philocrates. In it, he describes the process of commissioning the translatio...
I’m talking about the kind of gathering described in the Letter of Aristeas, a text that purports to tell the story of how the Hebrew Bible was translated into Greek, creating the ...
But that lifeline comes with a catch – a compromise of everything you hold sacred. That’s the agonizing dilemma faced by the Jews in Megillat Antiochus, a scroll recounting the eve...
A story about a small group of people who stared down a massive empire and refused to back down. This is the beginning of the story of Megillat Antiochus, a tale of courage, faith,...
That’s kind of how the Jewish people felt during the time of Antiochus. Imagine your holiest places defiled, your traditions outlawed, your very identity under attack. It was a dar...
That's exactly what happened to El’azar in the story of Megillat Antiochus. Megillat Antiochus, also known as the Scroll of Antiochus, is a fascinating little text. Think of it as ...
This psalm, which didn't quite make the cut for the final version of the Book of Psalms we know and love, is brimming with that very sentiment. It’s an explosion of praise, a call ...
That’s the kind of raw, desperate place we find ourselves in at the beginning of the story of Mattathias and the Maccabees. The Book of Maccabees I plunges us into a world where Je...
That’s exactly the kind of agonizing dilemma facing Mattathias and his followers in the Book of Maccabees I. The scene is this: the tyrannical Antiochus IV Epiphanes is determined ...
