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Righteous Roots
The creative and theological workshop behind the Jack Righteous story world, Genesis musical, songs, characters and deeper biblical reading.
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September 01, 2026
The Dead Sea Scrolls reveal a diverse Second Temple Jewish world of biblical manuscripts, law, apocalypse, community rules and competing interpretations.
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September 01, 2026
The Gospel-era Jewish sects did not exist unchanged from Moses onward. Their recognizable forms emerge in the turbulent Second Temple and Hasmonean worlds.
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John Hyrcanus expanded Hasmonean rule, destroyed the Samaritan sanctuary on Mount Gerizim and incorporated Idumea under coercive religious policies.
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The family that led resistance to Seleucid persecution became high priests, territorial rulers and kings—creating a new Jewish state with its own power struggles.
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The Maccabean revolt begins as resistance to Seleucid persecution and culminates in Temple rededication. Later Hanukkah tradition develops beyond the earliest accounts.
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Antiochus IV’s intervention in Judea, suppression of Jewish practices and Temple profanation created the crisis behind the Maccabean revolt and much of Daniel’s apocalyptic...
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Greek rule transformed language, education, politics and culture across the eastern Mediterranean. Jewish responses ranged from adaptation to resistance.
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Follow Judea from Alexander the Great through Ptolemaic and Seleucid rule, Antiochus IV, the Maccabean revolt, Hasmonean independence and Pompey’s Roman conquest.
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Esther tells a Persian-diaspora survival story where God is never explicitly named. Examine empire, identity, violence, Purim and the historical limits of the narrative.
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Malachi confronts priests and worship in the restored Temple, then promises a messenger and Elijah. Read the post-exilic setting before the New Testament applies...
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Samaritans are not simply pagan foreigners imported by Assyria. Trace their Israelite/Yahwistic identity, Mount Gerizim sanctuary and why this history matters for Jesus.
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Nehemiah is a Persian royal official who becomes governor of Yehud, rebuilds Jerusalem’s wall and confronts both external opposition and internal economic exploitation.
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