Hanukkah (167-164 BCE) 

Yeah, this is a very good point. The conflict between high priests, the various examples of treachery and betrayal, there's a lot missing. To be fair, he's trying to keep his videos short, but it could have used a mention at least. On the contrary, he seemed to imply that the Maccabeans actually did the opposite and allowed the idolatry and the like after Mattathias died, but as I recall that was not the case, but perhaps I misunderstood him.

It's also a bit misleading to say that Jews never accepted Maccabees in their canon. Some did and some still do. The canon was never properly and fully closed in Judaism, the most commonly accepted canon is what they established in the second century at Jamnia under Rabbi Akiba (and no, I'm not talking about the mythical and non-existent council of Jamnia that historians reject as having any evidence of actually having happened), but many Jews before and after accepted different lists than the canon established there, some including one or more of the books of Maccabees.

You just wait until my special on Friday...

They started selling sufganiyot again in ampm...which led me back to this video

There another layer to the Sukkot/ temple dedication. Kings 7-8 describes Solomon dedicating the temple and then celebrating sukkot (the chronicles version has 8 days, longer discussion why kings doesn’t have shmini altered ) so the Hasmoneans declaring an 8 day holiday strengthened their rule by connecting them to Solomon (see dr yael avarahami “biblical buildings blocks of chanukah “

Good point

I had a study hall teacher who was a pastor who hated the Maccabees. Never really understood why, but he was crazy

Obviously it became latter day popular because of the modern industrial-capitalist nationalist mythos of the contemporary State of Israel and to laud the early Zionists by implication

I looked it up, and apparently it does, but not enough for me to notice when looking at the channel overall.

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Curious myself.

It's in the episode after this one.

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Rock of Ages in English -- not to be confused with the Christian hymn with the same name.

Because, for whatever reason, Akiva ben Yosef (who ultimately set the canon) didn't like it. I'd guess that he didn't want to include a book that was entirely about human endeavors with no Godly presence...but then he included Esther, so who knows? It bothers me too.

It was a command for the sign of the covenant between God and Abraham and his descendants

It was the law of the LORD his God Deuteronomy 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own soul, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers; Deuteronomy 13:7 Namely, of the gods of the people which are round about you, nigh unto thee, or far off from thee, from the one end of the earth even unto the other end of the earth; Deuteronomy 13:8 Thou shalt not consent unto him, nor hearken unto him; neither shall thine eye pity him, neither shalt thou spare, neither shalt thou conceal him: Deuteronomy 13:9 But thou shalt surely kill him; thine hand shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterwards the hand of all the people. Deuteronomy 13:10 And thou shalt stone him with stones, that he die; because he hath sought to thrust thee away from the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt, from the house of bondage. Deuteronomy 13:11 And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.