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e-TiM: Why Aren't the Books of the Maccabees in the Tanach?

Why Aren't the Books of the Maccabees in the Tanach?

Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Mondays December 12 & 19

11:00 am Eastern, 6:00pm Israel

Hanukah is the only festival that doesn't have a biblical book associated with it. Why? We'll look at what seem to be the obvious candidates, the books of the Maccabees, examine their history, and sample their texts to find answers.

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Why Aren't the Books of the Maccabees in the Tanach? (Part 1)

December 12, 2022

Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Why Aren't the Books of the Maccabees in the Tanach? (Part 2)

December 19, 2022

Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

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Meet the speaker

Rabba Dr Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz

Rabba Dr. Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz was ordained by Yeshivat Maharat, New York in 2021. She studied at Cambridge University, the Hebrew University, and University College London, and has recently published Challenge and Conformity: The Religious Lives of Orthodox Jewish Women (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2021). Lindsey is a Research Fellow at London School of Jewish Studies, and an Honorary Fellow both at the Queen’s Foundation for Ecumenical Theology, Birmingham, and at Manchester University, where she held a Research Fellowship, 2020-2022, studying the history

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