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The kind of betrayal that shakes your faith in humanity. That's the kind of situation we find ourselves in with a particular passage from the Book of Maccabees I. We're in the thic...
Specifically, we're looking at Maccabees I, chapter 7. Now, remember the context. We're in the thick of the Maccabean Revolt, a fight for religious freedom and Jewish sovereignty a...
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....
We're talking about Nicanor, a general of the Seleucid Empire, and his clash with the Maccabees. The Seleucids, descendants of Alexander the Great's empire, were ruling over Judea,...
We're talking about the aftermath of a major clash, a turning point in their struggle for religious freedom. After a hard-fought battle, they weren't just content with winning. The...
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...
Specifically, let’s look at a snippet from Chapter 9. It’s a tense moment, dripping with political maneuvering. The text opens with a reference to the evils that Demetrius— that's ...
