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Mattathias, father of the Maccabees, certainly felt that way. Our story isn't from the Hebrew Bible we know as the Tanakh. This comes from the First Book of Maccabees, part of the ...
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...
Our scene unfolds in a small town in Judea, under the oppressive rule of the Seleucid Empire. King Antiochus IV Epiphanes has decreed that everyone must abandon their ancestral tra...
What would you do? Where would you go? This is precisely the situation facing Mattathias and his sons in the Book of Maccabees I, Chapter 2. They've just made a monumental decision...
That’s the kind of moment our ancestors faced in the story we're about to dive into, a story from the First Book of Maccabees. Imagine this: it’s a time of intense religious persec...
The First Book of Maccabees, a historical text not included in the Hebrew Bible but considered canonical by some Christians, offers a powerful glimpse into this very question. It r...
Specifically, let's look at Judah Maccabee himself. After the death of his father, Mattathias, the mantle of leadership fell upon Judah. And as we read in the Book of Maccabees I, ...
We pick up the story after the desecration of the Temple in Jerusalem and the persecution of the Jews by the Seleucid Empire. Things looked bleak. Really bleak. But then, a spark i...
Sometimes, those objects become more than just reminders. They become imbued with the spirit of the victory itself. That’s exactly what happened with Judas Maccabeus. After a parti...
