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  "kind": "event",
  "id": "antiochus-suppression",
  "era": "between-testaments",
  "order": 282,
  "title": "Antiochus IV suppresses Jewish practices",
  "group": "maccabean-resistance",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 167 BC · Suppression and temple desecration",
    "earliest": -167,
    "latest": -167
  },
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  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-a15257a",
  "summary": "First Maccabees reports the suppression of sacrifices, Sabbath observance and circumcision under Antiochus IV, along with desecration of the sanctuary. Some comply; others resist at the cost of their lives.",
  "context": "Second Maccabees also describes coercion and suffering. These accounts should not be flattened into a claim that every Hellenistic ruler pursued the same policy or that all Jewish people responded alike.",
  "question": "Which practices sustain a community’s identity when those practices become dangerous?",
  "sourceNote": "Historical background with external readings. First and Second Maccabees are Scripture in Catholic and many Orthodox traditions, but are outside the Jewish and most Protestant canons and this app’s bundled 66-book Bible.",
  "historicalSources": [
    {
      "label": "1 Maccabees 1:41–64",
      "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1maccabees/1",
      "note": "Narrates decrees, desecration and resistance; its chronological notes support the conventional 167 BC setting."
    },
    {
      "label": "2 Maccabees 6:1–11",
      "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/2maccabees/6",
      "note": "An overlapping account of suppression, not a sequel to First Maccabees."
    }
  ],
  "locationNote": "Jerusalem identifies the city and temple setting. Judea’s shading is illustrative and does not map the reach of each decree or each act of resistance.",
  "relatedNote": "These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.",
  "passages": [],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5006004,
        5006009
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "The call to covenant loyalty helps frame the practices at stake; it does not date this persecution.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 6:4–9",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%206%3A4%E2%80%939&version=BSB"
    }
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      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
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      "id": "intertestamental-judea",
      "name": "Judea",
      "coordinate": [
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      ],
      "extent": [
        [
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          31.25
        ],
        [
          35.5,
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        ]
      ],
      "kind": "Region",
      "confidence": "Approximate region",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "IAA: historical timeline; extent is an editorial illustration",
          "url": "https://www.deadseascrolls.org.il/learn-about-the-scrolls/historical-timeline?locale=en_US"
        }
      ]
    }
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  "mapPeriod": "second-temple-judea",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/between-testaments.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Between the Testaments",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=antiochus-suppression",
  "attribution": [
    "Place coordinates from OpenBible.info Bible Geocoding Data, CC BY 4.0.",
    "Teaching stops, summaries and regional extents are original editorial content of this atlas.",
    "Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. https://berean.bible/licensing.htm"
  ],
  "translation": "bsb",
  "url": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/antiochus-suppression/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/antiochus-suppression/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/antiochus-suppression/index.json",
  "cautions": "Narrative order is a reading arrangement, not a proven chronology. Dates retain their stated uncertainty. An identified locality does not establish the exact venue or prove an event. Region extents and routes are illustrative, not surveyed boundaries or ancient roads. Draft material has not completed editorial review.",
  "revision": "56708cfa98d9fdca"
}