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  "id": "jonathan-high-priest",
  "era": "between-testaments",
  "order": 286,
  "title": "Jonathan becomes high priest",
  "group": "hasmonean-society",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 152 BC · Feast of Booths",
    "earliest": -152,
    "latest": -152
  },
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  "summary": "In a contest between Seleucid claimants, Jonathan receives an offer of the high priesthood from Alexander Balas. First Maccabees describes him putting on the priestly vestments at the Feast of Booths while also strengthening his military position.",
  "context": "Alexander Balas is not Alexander the Great. Religious office, local leadership and foreign patronage are now closely connected. The resistance has not simply stepped outside imperial politics.",
  "question": "What difficulties arise when a religious office also becomes a bargaining tool between rulers?",
  "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 10:1–21",
      "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1maccabees/10",
      "note": "Narrates rival royal offers and Jonathan’s assumption of the high priesthood; notes date this to 152 BC."
    }
  ],
  "locationNote": "Jerusalem marks Jonathan’s public role and worship setting, not the place where a royal letter was drafted.",
  "relatedNote": "These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.",
  "passages": [],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        5016013,
        5016015
      ],
      "kind": "teaching",
      "note": "The Torah’s Feast of Booths provides context for the festival named in Jonathan’s appointment.",
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 16:13–15",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Deuteronomy%2016%3A13%E2%80%9315&version=BSB"
    }
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      "name": "Jerusalem",
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      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
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      "label": "OpenBible.info: Jerusalem (CC BY 4.0)",
      "url": "https://www.openbible.info/geo/ancient/a15257a/jerusalem"
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  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
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        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/between-testaments.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Between the Testaments",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=jonathan-high-priest",
  "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/jonathan-high-priest/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jonathan-high-priest/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/jonathan-high-priest/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": "dba5e92402876641"
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