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Hanukkah, the Hasmoneans, the Magnificat and Benedictus: A Hanukkah and Christmas Meditation
“Without the long preparatory work of contemporaneous Jewish faith, the teaching of Jesus would be unthinkable.”[1]Many readers of the New Testament fail to capture the impact historical events had upon the religious culture of Judaism.[2] These, in turn, shaped the spiritual and cultural world of the New Testament.
The festival of Hanukkah provides such…
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