Season 40

Simon “I’m too old for this shit” Maccabee finally taps out and hands the family blood-feud business to his sons, because nothing says “healthy succession plan” like immediate warfare and a leadership...

Pronouns? Useless. Names? Recycled like a church bulletin. In this 1 Maccabees 11–15 Q&A , we finally stop the “he said to him who said to him” madness long enough to make a damn Seleucid cheat sh...

Today on Sacrilegious Discourse , we slog through 1 Maccabees 15 , aka “Everyone Writes Letters and Nobody Explains Anything.” It opens with yet another Antiochus (because apparently they’re naming ba...

Demetrius finally gets scooped up like a sad little political Pokémon, and the text immediately slams the fast-forward button into “and then everything was chill forever” mode… allegedly. 1 Maccabees ...

Simon steps up after Jonathan’s betrayal-and-capture situation turns into a full-on “Greek politics but make it messy” episode. 1 Maccabees 13 opens with panic—Trifon’s marching, everyone’s terrified,...

Jonathan decides the Seleucid soap opera is getting way too pronoun-heavy, so he does what any ancient politician with commitment issues would do, he slides into Rome’s DMs to “renew the friendship.” ...

1 Maccabees 11 is basically Game of Thrones if every character had the same three names and the narrator kept shouting “he” like it explains anything. Ptolemy rolls into Syria “with words of peace” (c...

Pronouns in 1 Maccabees 8–10 are doing crimes against clarity, so we hit pause and run a full-on Q&A intervention. Judas hears about Rome (yes, that Rome), decides “distant empire bestie” is a sol...

This week on Sacrilegious Discourse , we slog through 1 Maccabees 10, a chapter that’s basically Game of Thrones if every character was a walking pronoun problem and every plot twist was solved with a...

This week on Sacrilegious Discourse , we crack open 1 Maccabees 9 and immediately get hit with seasonal chaos (“Jingle bell, jingle bell…”), plus a refresher rant about the book’s absolute felony-leve...

1 Maccabees 8 is basically ancient geopolitics with the world’s worst pronoun problem. We spend half the episode doing live “pronoun triage” just to figure out who’s conquering whom (again). At one po...

If you thought 1 Maccabees was confusing the first time through, welcome to the Q&A episode where we prove it wasn’t just you, it’s the text. The hosts dive into chapters 1–7 and immediately tackl...

Judas Maccabeus is back on his murder tour, and this time 1 Maccabees 7 serves up beheaded generals, and one extremely “arrogant” right hand that ends up hanging "beside" Jerusalem like a bloody lawn ...

In this episode, the Maccabees aren’t the only drama queens — King Antiochus IV basically has a full-on meltdown because he didn’t get to steal enough gold, then decides he’s dying of feelings instead...

Judas Maccabeus is back, and this time he’s on full genocidal tour mode. In 1 Maccabees 5 , our hosts walk through a chapter that reads less like “faith heroism” and more like “war crime highlight ree...

Judas Maccabeus is back on his murder tour, and 1 Maccabees 4 turns him into the ancient Near Eastern John Wick with a Bible plug. The hosts walk through Judas outsmarting “Gorgeous” Gorgias and his c...

In this episode, the heathen duo dive into 1 Maccabees 3 , where Judas Maccabeus rolls up in his giant breastplate, steals a fancy sword, and proceeds to “defend God’s law” by killing a lot of people—...

In this episode, the hosts dive into 1 Maccabees 2 , where we finally meet Matthias and his five sons— including the soon-to-be-brand-name rebel, Judas Maccabeus . Antiochus Epiphanes is still out her...

In this episode, we crack open First Maccabees, Chapter 1 and immediately get dropped into the chaos left behind by Alexander the Great and his idiot successor fanboys. The hosts walk through how Alex...

Forget talking snakes and magical arks— First Maccabees is an actual history book, and the hosts are weirdly excited about that. In this episode, they crack open the world between the Old and New Test...