{"collection":"Hypertext Bible","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_ma1002_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_ma1002_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_bib_poly_ma1002_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/poly/ma1002.htm","summary":"This is a bilingual scholarly edition of 1 Maccabees, Chapter 2, presenting the Apocrypha (English, likely the King James Bible translation) in parallel with the Septuagint (ancient Greek). The chapter narrates the uprising of Mattathias, a Jewish priest, against the Seleucid king's forced Hellenization campaign in 2nd-century BCE Judea \u2014 he kills both a Jewish apostate and a royal official at Modin, destroys a pagan altar, and flees to the mountains with his sons and followers to begin a guerrilla resistance. A distinctive episode recounts a thousand pious Jews who refuse to fight on the Sabbath and are slaughtered, prompting Mattathias to make a pragmatic ruling allowing defensive combat on the holy day. The chapter closes with Mattathias's deathbed speech, in which he invokes a roll call of faithful Hebrew ancestors (Abraham, Joseph, Phinehas, David, Daniel, and others) to exhort his sons to die for the Law, designating Simon as counselor and Judas Maccabeus as military commander. The work belongs to the Jewish-Hellenistic historiographical tradition and frames the Maccabean revolt as zealous covenant fidelity rather than mere political resistance, a theological argument that would shape later Jewish and Christian martyr literature.","tags":["Book of Acts","Greek New Testament","Polyglot Bible"],"text":null,"title":"Polyglot Bible: 1 Macabees: 1 Macabees 2","tradition":"Hypertext Bible","translated_text":null,"word_count":3839}