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The Middle Maccabees
The Levantini Podcast
English - February 22, 2022 22:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB - ★★★★★ - 8 ratingsJudaism Religion & Spirituality Education Language Learning arabic hebrew near east linguistics archaeology middle east religion history archaeologist Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Andrea Berlin is the James R. Wiseman Chair in Classical Archaeology and a Professor of Archaeology and Religion at Boston University. Her research focuses on the archaeology and history of the Achaemenid, Hellenistic, and Roman East, Ceramic Studies, Second-Temple Judaism, and the archaeology of Israel. In this episode, we discuss the book The Middle Maccabees of which she is a co-editor and a contributing author. The book examines the beginnings of the independent Jewish state founded in the second century BCE and frames it within the wider world of conflicts between the Ptolemies of Egypt, the Seleucids of Syria, and the Romans. You can purchase a copy of the book on Amazon.