Explore one of the leading books of the Apocrypha and investigate how Jews integrated and combatted dominant Greek culture, maintaining their own Jewish identity despite anti-Jewish laws and massive assimilation. The book of Maccabees tells the startling account of what life was like for the Jews under Seleucid rule after the death of Alexander the Great. The course will reveal how Hellenized Jews and religious Jews clashed over assimilation to a Greek way of life versus keeping true to Torah. Be among the very few Jews who have ever read or studied The Books of Maccabees.  

Dates: Dec. 3, 10, 17; Jan. 21, 28