{"id":10000,"date":"2026-11-07T06:42:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/greeks-compromise-the-israelites-the-lemba-in-hanukkah\/"},"modified":"2026-11-07T06:42:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-07T14:42:58","slug":"greeks-compromise-the-israelites-the-lemba-in-hanukkah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/greeks-compromise-the-israelites-the-lemba-in-hanukkah\/","title":{"rendered":"Greeks Compromise the Israelites | The Lemba in Hanukkah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x36Ze4PDxPo\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of how Hellenistic rule threatened Israelite traditions, alongside an exploration of the Lemba peoples&#8217; connection to Hanukkah. This video covers two distinct topics: the history of Greek assimilation in Judea and the unique cultural connection of Southern Africa&#8217;s Lemba community to Hanukkah.<br \/>\n#HanukkahHistory, #MaccabeanRevolt, #Hellenization, #AncientGreeks, #AntiochusIV, #ReligiousFreedom, #LembaPeople, #BlackJews, #AfricanJewishHistory, #LostTribesOfIsrael, #HouseOfIsrael, #LembaTraditions, #Israelites, #CohenModalHaplotype, #KohanimDNA, #JewishGenetics, #TribeOfLevi, #BiblicalHistory, #JewishHistory, #AfricanHistory, #CulturalAssimilation, #HiddenHistory, #TorahPortion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A breakdown of how Hellenistic rule threatened Israelite traditions, alongside an exploration of the Lemba peoples&#8217; connection to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mamlekhet-kohanim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/hqdefault-75.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blackhistoryinthebible.com\/community\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}