120.21 Hanukkah: A Festival of Lighting up the Greeks

History of the Papacy Podcast

History of the Papacy

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🗓️ 22 December 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Transcript Address: What is the most natural topic for the History of the Papacy Podcast? Of course Hanukkah! This episode sheds light on Hanukkah's origins and significance. The historical context, including the Maccabean Revolt, the Temple's...

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0:46.7	Music Welcome to the History of the Papacy podcast, a podcast about the history of the popes of Rome and Christian Church.
0:49.7	Prepare yourself to step behind the ropes and leave the official tour of the story of the
0:55.1	popes and Christianity. I'm your host, Steve Guerra, and I thank you for joining me on this journey.
1:05.0	The next two episodes are something I don't normally do. They are holiday themed special episodes. I'd like to
1:14.4	thank longtime listener Michael Silbeck for prompting these episodes. Today's episodes a little
1:21.6	indirectly related to the podcast, but has a very strong connection to this particular series, and that's the story of Hanukkah.
1:31.2	Hanukkah is a really interesting holiday that connects many threads that we are talking about in this series,
1:38.1	where we are trying to find the beginnings of Christianity before the times of Jesus Christ.
1:46.3	Hanukkah is a really interesting holiday celebration, or festival or feast you might call it.
1:54.4	Not having grown up Jewish, but living in a neighborhood that had a fairly large Jewish population,
2:00.2	I thought Hanukkah was in some way
2:03.0	the Jewish Christmas. Kids got gifts and all of the usual trappings of a gift-giving holiday.
2:12.1	After marrying into a Jewish family, I still didn't have much of an idea of the theology or history behind
2:19.5	Hanukkah beyond eating lottas and donuts. I did learn not to ask for ketchup or barbecue sauce
2:28.5	to accompany the lotkas. I learned that lesson very quickly. I knew as much as the next person about the miracle of the eight days of oil and all.
2:39.2	That was about it.
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