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EPISODE · Nov 26, 2017 · 28 MIN

2.10 Grappling with the Greeks I: Josephus and the Books of Maccabees

from History in the Bible · host Garry Stevens

First in a mini-series on the history of the Jews and the province of Judea under the Hellenistic empires, and under the Maccabees. I start with a summary of the history I will expand on in the next few episodes. Then I present our sources for that history, Josephus and Maccabees. I conclude with a few notes about the oddities of the Ethiopian orthodox biblical canon.

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