
Bonus 51: Maccabees, Sadducees, and Pharisees With Gil Kidron
History in the Bible
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The Importance of Egalitarianism in the 140 BC
The Pharisees were more egalitarian. Conservatives are hierarchical. They're not egalitarian, which is why they beefed with John Holkin as you mentioned before that about the Seliezer fellow. It's not a good basis for a king to have strategic allies who are egalitarian. And also, we talked about it a little bit off the air that there's a recent archaeological research that shows that at the same time that we're talking about the 140 BC, that's when we have the first evidence of Hebrews celebrating Passover.
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