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Re: orion Code-words and Hanukkah
At 01:26 PM 11/16/97 -0400, you wrote:
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>>2) Re Hanukkah. Since Maccabees does not mention the miracle of the
>>menorah, is it possible sectarians recognized the Hasmonean victory as a
>>day of celebration while rejecting the "Pharisaic" injunction to light the
>>candles in recognition of the menorah?
>
>Since the miracle of the oil isn't mentioned in any literature until
>centuries later (not in the Mishnah nor in the Yerushalmi, first mentioned
>in Babylonian Talmud! nor is there a tractate on Hanukkah to correspond
>with tractate Megillah for Purim!), most modern scholars have concluded
>(in my view, correctly) that no such ritual was officially instituted at or
>even close to the time of the historical events nor is it attested for
>centuries thereafter. Yes, I know that some people get very upset upon
>hearing this, but in the interests of intellectual honesty these facts and
>their implications need to be confronted.
>
>Judith Romney Wegner
>jrw@brown.edu
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