Hanukkah Tale: Maccabees Story

Hanukkah Story: Narrative. Arielle Screenplay Productions. A musical narrative to the story and history behind the Maccabees, their miracle of lights, and the way God was there watching even when hope was lost!

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[kukiaaa]

Thank u Avi ♥

[Hilaryjenkins8002]

The real losers on the war were Hellenized Jews. They had taken up Greek athletics which as in today's Olympics amounted to pagan body worship. Some of them exercised naked and had their circumcisions reversed to look Greek. So the frummies slaughtered them.

[iuri1223]

even though i am a athiest i still respect the people who have religion (i hate cristians)

[SuperDeut4]

To all the jewish people..... Thank you.

[Rickyrab]

@Rickyrab The Maccabees became the Hasmoneans. They built up an unstable kingdom that was at first under heavy Seleucid influence. They then became independent, but it was a shaky independence. There were civil wars. The fighting ultimately led to a takeover of the Jewish lands by Rome.

[Rickyrab]

@Rickyrab Seleucids went and converted the Temple Mount to Greek pagan use and apparently abandoned part of it (resulting in some parts getting overgrown). A lot of fighting later, the Jews retook it, dedicated the Temple, and instituted a "Festival of Lights" (later renamed "Dedication", or Hanukkah). The fighting didn't end there, though. Parthians took a city in east Seleucia, Antiochus died, and Jews and Seleucids fought each other for the next few years.

[Rickyrab]

@Rickyrab This power grab took place in an atmosphere of scandal and corruption. The Seleucid army, retreating into this fight, was faced with violence they didn't need, and Antiochus promptly took sides (siding with the Hellenizers), making matters worse by slapping a ban on traditional Judaism. This probably made both sides upset with the Seleucids, and started the Maccabee revolt. A priest, Matisyahu (Mattathias), and his kids (including Judah Maccabee), led the charge.

[Rickyrab]

@Rickyrab The Roman diplomat drew a circle in the sand around Antiochus, and told him that if he stepped outside it without pulling out of Egypt, the Romans would consider it an act of war. A disgruntled Seleucid army started pulling back towards the Jewish lands, which weren't in the best of moods either. Liberal/ secular Hellenized Jews were arguing with the traditionalists and both were trying to grab the position of High Priest for themselves.

[Rickyrab]

@Rickyrab Unfortunately for Seleucus, the raider (Heliodorus) came back and assassinated Seleucus in a coup d' etat. Then our bad guy came onto the stage - Antiochus IV Epiphanes, who took the throne by kicking Heliodorus off. Egypt then demanded back land that the Seleucids had taken earlier, and Antiochus responded by sending an army against Egypt, which the Seleucids defeated. This set off alarm bells in Rome, and so they sent a diplomat to try and persuade Antiochus to back down.

[Rickyrab]

@Rickyrab The local powers at the time were Seleucia, Egypt, and the rising Roman Republic, and Antiochus III won Israel from Egypt around 200 BCE. He then made the mistake of going up against Rome (by invading Greece). He lost, so he gave up some land, and headed east to plunder Persian temples. He died at that point, and the empire fell to Seleucus IV Philopater. Seleucus IV sent some guy to raid the Temple in Jerusalem so he could pay the Romans.

[Rickyrab]

@StMorgen It wasn't completely Syrian or Greek either. It was the Seleucid Empire - a country descended from the empire of Alexander the Great, and one that pretty much began in Babylonia (Iraq). At the time of the Maccabees, this country extended from Iran in the east to the Levant in the west, and the Seleucids already had picked fights with Jews.

[HebrewFatherland]

@LleraCronicas I must say I am not deep into Jewish astrology,or astrology at all..so I can't say.

But thanks for the information.