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The brave Ḥashmonaim rising up against the oppressive King Antiochus and his Greek armies. But what happened after they reclaimed the Temple in Jerusalem? Well, the scroll known as...
Psalm 154, a beautiful text found amongst the Dead Sea Scrolls, speaks to exactly that feeling. It's about being close to, or far from, the divine presence. And it paints such a vi...
The First Book of Maccabees gives us a glimpse into just that—the tragic events leading up to the Maccabean revolt. It paints a vivid, almost painful picture of the moment when the...
That’s exactly what happened to Jerusalem in the time leading up to the Maccabean revolt, as described in the Book of Maccabees I. Imagine your most sacred space, your place of wor...
1 Maccabees 1 paints a stark picture: "Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honour into contempt." ...
That's the world the Maccabees faced. The Book of Maccabees I, a historical text not included in the Hebrew Bible but considered canonical in some Christian traditions, paints a vi...
The Book of Maccabees I gives us a stark glimpse. Imagine this: a decree echoes across the land, reaching every corner of the kingdom. Antiochus IV Epiphanes, the Seleucid king, is...
We find ourselves in the era described in the Book of Maccabees I, a historical text that vividly recounts the struggles of the Jewish people under the Seleucid Empire. Imagine thi...
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 ...
