It's the world's first incidence of religious persecution. Without a victory in the Maccabean war, there would have been no Jews and no Jesus. The book of Maccabees is found in the Christian Bible, not the Hebrew Bible. . .
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2006-12-11 00:48:20 · 4 answers · asked by Hatikvah 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Other - Holidays
Very few - and the Book of Maccabees is not found in the gererally accepted canon of the Christian Bible, but only in that part known as The Apocrypha which falls outside the Old and New Testaments
2006-12-11 00:59:03 · answer #1 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Chaya is sweet. yet different vacation journeys, like Passover and Shavuot have only been replaced to become Christian (Easter and Pentecost) and received a sparkling meaning and a sparkling way of celebrating it, faraway from the Jewish customs. Why not Hanukka? i'm not precisely confident of this yet interior the curriculum for Jewish non secular preparation in extreme colleges (certain, it exists in some international locations) it says that the instructor ought to pay interest now to not accord too a lot value to "minor" celebrations which include Hanukka only because this is celebrated at the same time Christmas, as a huge Christian vacation is widely known. So i ask your self if on the time Christianity got here about it already had this kind of vast value that Christians / Constantine ought to ensure a favor to "remodel" it. perhaps it replaced into only not sufficiently vast. yet an additional reason must be that the time replaced into already "taken" with techniques from Christmas. this is troublesome to have a good time 2 issues at a time ...
2016-11-30 10:32:12 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably only those who are married or dating a Jewish person, has a Jewish parent or alot of Jewish friends....
2006-12-11 00:52:25 · answer #3 · answered by Me 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not many.
2006-12-11 00:49:36 · answer #4 · answered by sshhmmee2000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋