Word: maccabean
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...reluctantly. Twenty-one years is long enough to allow a generation of Palestinians to grow to adulthood knowing only, and hating, the occupation. But in a land so old, 21 years is merely an instant. Civilizations are piled on top of one another (Hebrew, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian, Greek, Hellenistic, Maccabean, Roman, Byzantine, Arab, Egyptian, crusader, Mameluke, Ottoman, on and on), all the laminations that conquerors have left in the earth there -- a rich debris of meanings and promises and desires. The accumulation of passion and memory, so much of it implicated with God, can make the land seem at times...
...simple graves at Qumran, the tomb was inside a purpose-built structure. That may mean that the bones belonged to an important person, perhaps even the "Teacher of Righteousness" mentioned in the scrolls. Other researchers have speculated that the teacher may have been one of the Maccabean kings of Judea, the apostle James, John the Baptist, perhaps even Jesus...
...truly practical, but it ignores all competing claims to the legitimacy of menorah lighting other than that of fire prevention. The foremost objection to the ban is that it limits religious freedom. Candle lighting is essential to the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah because it reminds Jewish people of their Maccabean ancestors' struggles to reclaim the Temple. By placing menorahs in their windows, Jews remind others of their past struggles against oppression and their determination to ensure freedom...
...author of books on angels and demons. "They are a reaffirmation of the traditional vision of a Christian world when that vision is under attack." Retired rabbi Morris Margolies, author of an upcoming book on angels in Judaism agrees. "We're living in an era very similar to the Maccabean era for the Jews," he says, "where disaster confronts us on all sides. People are looking for simple answers...
...dynasty's been broken. THE NOTEBOOK: Last weekend three members of the men's tennis team competed in the finals of the Maccabean trials for the U.S. squad...