Bonus 51: Maccabees, Sadducees, and Pharisees With Gil Kidron
History in the Bible
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The Rise and Fall of the Pharisees
The Maccabees stay associated with the Sadducees. Who used to be their enemies like a moment ago, like politics, strange bedfellows. Alexander Janaeus is a guy who thinks everything could be settled by the sword. And it's only when he dies and tells his wife, Alexander, I'll let you fix it up after I'm gone that she makes up with the Pharisees.
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