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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 kind of energy we’re diving into today, straight from the heart of the Maccabean story. Our scene comes from the Book of Maccabees I, chapter 4. The Maccabees, a small b...
The story plunges us right into the thick of it. Judas Maccabeus, the hammer of God, and his army are on the move. They’ve just made a sharp turn "by the way of the wilderness unto...
They've got you pinned against the Yarden – the Jordan River. Surrounded. What do you do? That's the situation we find ourselves in at the beginning of the ninth chapter of the Fir...
The story we're about to delve into echoes that sentiment, a tale of resilience, faith, and the enduring power of brotherhood. It comes to us from the Book of Maccabees I, a histor...
We know their story. Hanukkah celebrates their victory. But have you ever paused to consider the weight of leadership they carried, the sacrifices they made? In the First Book of M...
The Second Book of Maccabees tells a harrowing, yet inspiring, story of faith and resistance. It recounts the persecution of Jews under the rule of Antiochus IV Epiphanes, a Seleuc...
That's the unsettling beginning of the story of Susanna, a tale found in the Book of Daniel, specifically in what's often called "The Book of Susanna." The scene is set in the hous...
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...
