#maccabee

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What if Yehudit of Betul and Yehudah Maccabee were the same person, and Yehudah Maccabee was a trans man? There is no canonical evidence for this, I just think it's a cool concept.

Happy Chanukah!

💙🔨🕎🕯מי ימלל גבורות ישראל 💙🔨🕎🕯

I recently learned the etymology of ‘Macabre’, and it is too great not to share.

‘Macabre’ comes from ‘Maccabee’. As in the ones from Hanukah.  Y’see, back in the day people put on shows/plays about the events in the book of Maccabee. Part of that play was a dance sequence depicting the Greeks torturing the Maccabees (Not for anti-Semitic reasons, just because it occured in the story and for some odd reason they thought it should be a musical scene).

In France this scene was called  “dance Maccabee” or “danse macabre” (spelling not being crazy important in medieval france). Possibly the first use of the term was in Latin “Machabaeorum chorea”. 

In any case the sequence was relatively horrifying, and so the term ‘macabre’ came to mean anything horrifying or gruesome.  

This gives 3 takeaways:  1) Goth Chanukah makes perfect sense 2) The ‘R’ in ‘macabre’ should be silent (both pronunciations are officially acceptable). 3) Etymology is fun! (but that is a bit of a given.

Also: Source1 Source2 Source3

The oldest Bible in the WORLD was found in ETHIOPIA.

Ethiopia is in Africa!!!

So why do you still want to believe that Jesus was anything other than a Black Man???

Happy Hanukkah from the Brooklyn Museum! 

The festival of lights commemorates an event in the 2nd century CE, when a small group of Jews led by Judah the Maccabee rose against the ruling Syrian-Greek army and reclaimed the Holy Temple of Jerusalem. The eight-day celebration is observed with a nightly menorah (ritual candelabra) lighting, games, and fried food like latkes and jelly doughnuts called sufganiyot.

Chag Sameach!