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Showing posts with label Chanuka. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chanuka. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 3, 2013

The Rise of Heresy - The Hellenistic Jews and the Sadducees

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The following material, which was originally written for a Jewish history class in a yeshiva high school, is basically a direct continuatio...
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Monday, December 10, 2012

On Ambiguities in Jewish History - A Correspondence with a Concerned Reader

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I recently received an e-mail from a reader, Chanie, who was legitimately concerned about an aspect of an earlier post  of mine. With her p...
Friday, December 7, 2012

Shimon HaTzadik's Three Pillars and the Greek Shmad

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There is a famous midrashic passage that discusses the second verse of the Torah: והארץ היתה תהו ובהו וחשך על פני תהום ורוח אלקים מרחפת ע...
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Greeks and Greek Philosophy in Traditional Jewish Thought

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The Greeks first entered Jewish history via the conquest of the Persian Empire by Alexander the Great, towards the end of their “Classical ...
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Tuesday, December 27, 2011

How Did the Jewish Revolt Against the Greeks Begin?

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In a previous post , I mentioned that there are only two sources for the story of Chanuka that have any real "canonical" authorit...
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Monday, December 26, 2011

The Miracles - and Lessons - of Chanuka

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While there are a number of historical sources for the events surrounding the Jewish rebellion against the Syrian Greek empire, there are o...
Thursday, December 22, 2011

"There were no Maccabees!"

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One Chanuka, some years ago, I got a phone call from a student's mother who was a bit upset with me. She told me that the previous night...