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This week on Sacrilegious Discourse , the hosts dive into 2 Maccabees chapters 6 through 10 âwhich somehow manages to cram in torture, rotting flesh, worms, divine vengeance, and a Hanukkah recap like itâs…
2 Maccabees Chapter 10 kicks off with temple rededication, sacred cleanup, and the origin-story vibes of Hanukkah—because nothing says “holy renewal” like tearing down altars, relighting lamps, and immediately getting dragged back into divinely…
The so-called 400 “silent years” get absolutely dragged in this episode—and deservedly so. Husband and Wife tear into the lazy Sunday-school version of history where the Old Testament just… stops, everybody stares into the…
The Dallas Cowboys walk into a cult psychology lecture…and somehow it makes perfect sense. In this episode, Sacrilegious Discourse uses football fandom as the gateway drug to a much bigger conversation about cognitive dissonance,…
2 Maccabees 9 is what happens when biblical writers decide simple death isn’t dramatic enough and go full body-horror revenge fantasy instead. In this episode, we dig into Antiochus’ spectacular downfall—complete with chariot chaos,…
2 Maccabees 8 is what happens when the text decides God apparently loves guerrilla warfare, revenge, and a good old-fashioned body count. In this episode, the hosts dig into Judas Maccabeus rallying 6,000 rebels,…
Seven brothers and their mom get hauled in under the king’s “eat pork or else” policy… and boy does “or else” show up ready to work. 2 Maccabees 7 turns into a full-on gore…
We’re wrapping up the “between-the-testaments” chaos and realizing there’s a big missing bridge before we slam into the New Testament: how Judea went from Greek influence to Roman control, and why that matters for…
Antiochus (a.k.a. Mr. Forced-Assimilation) decides the Jews aren’t Greek enough, so he sends an Athenian envoy to “fix” that—by outlawing Jewish law, rebranding temples for Olympian Zeus, and basically turning Jerusalem into a frat…
Second Maccabees kicks off like a group text from Jerusalem to the Jewish diaspora in Egypt—basically: “Hey fam, come celebrate the Temple rededication… also here’s some bonus lore.” And by “lore,” we mean sacred…
