Hanukkah in the Bible?

A virtual event presentation by Professor Marc Zvi Brettler

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ABOUT THE EVENT:

Hannukah is a prime example of a post-biblical festival—but it has left its tracks in the Bible, and is based on biblical texts.  We will look at the earliest evidence we have for this festival, and how it has changed over time.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:

Marc Zvi Brettler is the Bernice and Morton Lerner Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Duke University.  His books How to Read the Jewish Bible; The Jewish Study Bible (edited with Adele Berlin); and The Bible and the Believer (with Peter Enns and Daniel Harrington).  He co-edited The Jewish Annotated New Testament, and co-authored The Bible With and Without Jesus: How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently, both with Amy-Jill Levine. He is deeply committed to making the Jewish community more aware of the richness of Jewish literature from the past, including the New testament, and to introducing academic biblical study to the broader community, as reflected in TheTorah.com, which he co-founded.  Marc describes himself as a liberal observant Jew.