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The robbery & murder behind the story of Hanukka
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STEPHEN GABRIEL ROSENBERG
Jerusalem Post
12-28-2008
Headline: The robbery & murder behind the story of Hanukka
Byline: STEPHEN GABRIEL ROSENBERG
Edition; Daily
Section: Opinion
Page: 13
Sunday, December 28, 2008 -- It is often the minor characters that play a pivotal role. So it is in the story of Hanukka, where every Jewish child knows the names of Judas Maccabeus and Antiochus Epiphanes, but who has heard of Heliodorus, intimate "friend of the emperor" Seleucus IV or chief minister of the empire, as he is called in the Second Book of Maccabees?
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