1 Maccabees 2, Numbers 25:7-9, Psalm 106: 26-28. The first chapter of 1 Maccabees, which we considered in last episode, set the scene for us, and gave an overall picture of the atrocities suffered by the Jewish people under the oppression of the Seleucid king, Antiochus Epiphanes IV. Chapter two, which we will read inContinue reading "Light from the Readable Books 24: Maccabean Resistance and Remembrance"
