The Good Word
January 01, 2008
For me as a student of the Greco-Roman era the word Epiphany has certain connotations attached to it which are hard to shake and they all revolve around one man Antiochus IV Epiphanes As told in 1 Maccabees 1-2 and 2 Maccabees 5-7 Antiochus attempted to annihilate Judaism which initially he pr