I read 1-4 Maccabees for the first time and I got to say I noticed somethings I don't think others have discussed here before. Now I have heard claims that there are hidden instructions to infiltrate and destroy foreigners. I did not see it. But what I have found first and foremost is that Jews can't FUCKING STOP digging deeper into a hole! 2 Maccabees 8:20 suggests that Jews assisted Alexander the Great with his invasions!>and the time of the battle against the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand Jews fought along with four thousand Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred twenty thousand Galatians and took a great amount of plunder.Macedonians! They assisted Macedonians in Babylon! Who ruled over Babylon at the time? The Persians who helped them build their 2nd temple! Well how the fuck did that work out huh?! 200 years of occupation and their temple plundered by temple happy raiding King Antiochus IV. So they ally with Romans for their rebellion. Little do the authors of 1 and 2 Maccabees know that they are getting played in a divide and conquer scheme. Seriously 1 Maccabees is Jews and Greeks stabbing each other in the back. Jews stabbing Jews in the back. Greeks stabbing Greeks in the back. Jews and Arabs stabbing each other in the back. And Jews fellatioing Romans for an alliance against the Seleucids. Well that worked out well into the future didn't it? Just like they were fellatioing Muslims in the west until recently.
Now is something I was not expecting at all! 3 Maccabees is overtly the original Holocaust story. Set in Ptolemaic Egypt in 200 BC but with an historically inaccurate spectacle in the Hippodrome that dates 3 Macc. to the Roman period. Call it the Hippodromecaust if you will.Egyptian Jews are rounded up to at first be taxed then sent to forced labor before finally being sent to the Hippodrome to be exterminated. But instead of gas chambers they are to be crushed to death by drunk elephants. I am not making this up! The moral of 3 Maccabees is to fake a tragedy and survivor stories to gain sympathy. Use that sympathy to get special privileges from leaders. It works on Greeks but not on Egyptians. They literally get the king to change his mind after 3 failed attempts at getting elephants to stomp on Jews. At the end they are granted their Torah law courts completely unsupervised by the king to police Jews all the way up to imposing executions. They immediately use it to execute 350 apostate Jews who helped the government round people up.And here is where it gets interesting if you read historical contextual study guide notes. In Harper Collins this is what it says about 3 Maccabees 4:14>The entire race was to be registered individually, presumably so that no one would escape, but the process seems to be laborious. Again this may point to an original story concerned with registration rather than annihilation.Harper Collins is a Hippodromecaust denier!
1 Maccabees 12:21 says that Greeks (Whites) are descendants of Abraham. No wonder the Jews removed it from their Biblical canon.
>>524223224It was Johnathan saying bullshit during a negotiation to appeal to Spartans. Arabs later fell for it with the Ishmael shit. Simon and John Hyrcanus were better at negotiating than Judas Maccabeus and Johnathan.
>>524222345Jeremiah 4:22, you retard
>>524224237The Harper Collins Study Bible uses BCE/ CE. ‘Nuff said.
>>524223224The real reason is that in the story the high priests were telling the Maccabees that they were going to be steward kings until the Messiah arrived then would have to step down. Simon humbly excepted it. King Harrod married John Hyrcanus' great granddaughter. Then killed her and their 2 sons. Jesus was born a few years later. >>524225373Scholarly Bible. This was years before the Orthodox Study Bible came out. I just happened to have it before I became an Orthodox Christian. Just didn't get around reading the Deuterocanonical cannon books until a few days ago. Surprisingly it is recommended for some English speaking Orthodox Christians. Very good at contextualizing and cross referencing other historical sources. It will tell you outright when something in the Bible is wrong.
>>524223224They think we are both the descendants of Esau and Amalek. "Edom will be utterly destroyed!" Meanwhile pic related.
