Archived Events

Event podcasts, videos, summaries, and Maccabees Project member responses below.

Virtual Brown Bags

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Khirbet el-Eika
New Discoveries
Has the Akra Been Found in Jerusalem?
The Tomb of the Maccabees and Its Afterlife
Tel Kedesh
Did the Maccabees Practice Infant Sacrifice?

Maccabees Project Dialogues

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Lunch and Discussion
Boston College School of Theology and Ministry Library
Can Judaism Survive a Jewish State?
On First and Second Books of Maccabees Congregation Kehillath Israel
Holy War Past and Present
Florence & Chafetz Hillel House, Boston University
Did the Maccabees Intend to Conquer the Promised Land?
Congregation Kehillath Israel
The Maccabees and the Idea of the Promised Land
The Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, Boston University

Lectures and Interviews

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The Maccabees Project on Chuck Morse Speaks
Tel Kedesh and the Maccabees
Andrea Berlin at Tel Aviv University

We launch The Maccabees Project with these questions in mind, animated by the prospects of new discoveries and understandings. We are committed to a multi-disciplinary research collaboration involving scholars of biblical studies, ancient history, archaeology, and the history of religion. Over the next two years we will host a series of seminars, colloquia, and public lectures in order to present and review the evidence comprehensively, rigorously, and from multiple perspectives. We hope to gain an appreciation of each piece of evidence in its own right, to explore methods for extracting and synthesizing reliable historical data, and to establish collaborative habits that will benefit future research. In addition we aim to reach beyond academic circles, to religious communities and the general public, so as to promote broader discussion and understanding of some of the fundamental effects of these long-ago events. The stories of the Maccabees have shaped a range of developments—in Judaism and Christianity, in resistance movements and revolts, and in notions of martyrdom and nationalism—from antiquity to the present.