2.11 Grappling With the Greeks II: Jerusalem Against Athens
History in the Bible
Garry Stevens
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🗓️ 10 December 2017
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
The Judeans spent 120 happy years under the Hellenistic rule of the Egyptian Ptolemies. They chafed under the rule of the Hellenistic kingdom of the Seleucids, who faced severe geopolitical challenges. The social and economic tidal wave of international Hellenism challenged every aspect of Judean life and thought. A country Jewish priest called Mattathias revolted against this globalisation: Make Judea Holy Again!
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| 0:00.0 | Gide. I'm Gary Stevens. |
| 0:07.4 | 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. |
| 0:19.6 | Episode 2.11. Grappling with the Greeks Part 2.11 |
| 0:21.8 | Grappling with the Greeks Part 2. |
| 0:26.0 | Jerusalem against Athens |
| 0:27.5 | And a happy Hanukkah to you all. |
| 0:31.8 | In the next few episodes, I'll get to Cripps |
| 0:34.6 | with the historical events behind that festival, |
| 0:39.1 | the Judean victory over their Greek masters. |
| 0:42.9 | In the last episode, I gave a plotted history of the Jews under the Hellenistic kingdoms |
| 0:49.3 | to provide an orientation to that complex period. |
| 0:53.8 | I discussed the sources we have for the history of the Jews |
| 0:56.9 | under the Hellenistic kingdoms. |
| 1:00.1 | Josephus and the books of Maccabees. |
| 1:03.1 | Time to tackle the tale of those turbulent times in detail. |
| 1:08.5 | Let's rewind a bit. |
| 1:15.7 | In episode 2.7, under Persia, farewell to the Old Testament, I left the Judeans snuggling down in their homeland, under the benign rule of the Persians, |
| 1:23.5 | and then came Alexander. Alexander the Great conquered the entire Persian Empire. |
| 1:31.7 | During his initial march down the Levantine coast towards Egypt in 332 BC, |
| 1:38.6 | Alexander spent seven months besieging the great city of Tyre. |
| 1:43.8 | When the final war had been breached, the Macedonian |
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