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  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "jason-jerusalem-gymnasium",
  "era": "between-testaments",
  "order": 281,
  "title": "Jerusalem’s leadership disputes Greek customs",
  "group": "maccabean-resistance",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 175 BC onward · Jason’s high priesthood",
    "earliest": -175,
    "latest": -172
  },
  "pin": [
    35.234167,
    31.776667
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Identified site",
  "pinPlace": "openbible-a15257a",
  "summary": "Second Maccabees describes Jason obtaining the high priesthood with promises of payments and introducing a gymnasium in Jerusalem. Its narrator condemns the resulting neglect of temple duties and the pursuit of Greek honors.",
  "context": "The conflict includes rival Jewish leaders and competing visions of public life. It is not simply a story of every Jew opposing every Greek custom. Second Maccabees supplies its own theological evaluation, which should be heard as the narrator’s voice.",
  "question": "How can we distinguish learning another culture’s language from abandoning responsibilities to a community?",
  "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": "2 Maccabees 4:7–17",
      "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/2maccabees/4",
      "note": "Ancient narrative of Jason’s reforms and the author’s criticism of them."
    }
  ],
  "locationNote": "The Jerusalem pin does not locate the gymnasium or prove an excavated structure was Jason’s building.",
  "relatedNote": "These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.",
  "passages": [],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5008011,
        5008018
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "Deuteronomy warns about forgetting obligations amid prosperity; this is a thematic connection, not a direct reference to Jason.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:11–18",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%208%3A11%E2%80%9318&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "openbible-a15257a",
      "name": "Jerusalem",
      "coordinate": [
        35.234167,
        31.776667
      ],
      "kind": "City",
      "confidence": "Identified site",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
          "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "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=jason-jerusalem-gymnasium",
  "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/jason-jerusalem-gymnasium/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jason-jerusalem-gymnasium/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jason-jerusalem-gymnasium/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": "83bff8bac30e2a15"
}