An excellent but LONG (45 minutes) documentary about the history - TopicsExpress



          

An excellent but LONG (45 minutes) documentary about the history of Hanukkah. Two points - when the Maccabees stopped to rededicate the Temple, the Selucids still ruled most of Israel - even most of Jerusalem. But they stopped to give thanks. Second - the main reason why the 2 books of Maccabees were not added to the Hebrew Scriptures, but relegated with some other related texts, such as Judith, to the Apocrypha was because Rome ruled when they were putting form to the Scriptures. Emphasizing a revolt against a foreign ruler might have lead to the very violent reprisals that happened when the Zealots revolted.
Posted on: Tue, 16 Dec 2014 04:24:03 +0000

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