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

History in the Bible

Garry Stevens

History, Christianity, Judaism, Bible, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 26 November 2017

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	Gide. I'm Gary Stevens.
0:08.0	And welcome to the second series of the History in the Bible podcast.
0:13.1	More of the history in more of the books in all the Bibles.
0:20.2	Episode 2.10
0:22.2	Grappling with the Greeks Part 1
0:24.9	Josephus and the Books of Magabees
0:27.9	In the last episode of the history in the Bible
0:31.8	I tackled the most important book
0:34.4	that never made it into any Bible outside of Ethiopia.
0:39.0	The book of First Enoch.
0:42.2	Let's get back to the history.
0:44.9	In this episode, I want to give you a summary sketch of the history I will cover in detail
0:51.1	in the next few episodes and explore our sources for those times.
0:57.2	To make things clearer, I have some charts and timelines at my site www.
1:03.8	www.history in the Bible.com for your reading.
1:09.5	The Judeans spent a blissful two centuries under benign Persian patronage.
1:15.9	After many fitful starts, they rebuilt Jerusalem and its temple.
1:21.3	They established laws and government under the high priest of the temple, a perfect
1:27.1	theocracy, indolently overseen
1:29.9	by a distant and indifferent Persian satrap. In the old Hebrew kingdoms, the High Priest was a
1:37.5	functionary of the divinely appointed Davidic king, rarely emerging from obscurity. With no divine monarch, the high priest became the
1:47.8	uncontested leader of the Jews. He became not just the highest religious authority,
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