{
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "kind": "event",
  "id": "mattathias-modiin",
  "era": "between-testaments",
  "order": 283,
  "title": "Mattathias’s family begins armed resistance",
  "group": "maccabean-resistance",
  "date": {
    "kind": "approximate",
    "label": "c. 167–166 BC · Modiin and the hills",
    "earliest": -167,
    "latest": -166
  },
  "pin": [
    35,
    31.92
  ],
  "pinConfidence": "Approximate region",
  "pinPlace": "modiin-area",
  "summary": "First Maccabees describes Mattathias refusing a royal demand to sacrifice, killing a fellow Jew and the king’s officer, and fleeing with his sons to the hills. After refugees are killed on a Sabbath, the resistance resolves to defend itself when attacked.",
  "context": "The account commends zeal but includes violence against both outsiders and fellow Jews, as well as forced circumcision. Those details belong in the reading. Describing them is not a general instruction for how a class should treat religious disagreement.",
  "question": "What tensions between survival, law and violence does this account ask readers to confront?",
  "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 2:15–48",
      "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1maccabees/2",
      "note": "Primary account of resistance, flight and the decision concerning Sabbath defense."
    }
  ],
  "locationNote": "Modiin’s ancient village location is disputed. The shaded area northwest of Jerusalem is deliberately broad; no modern tomb, altar or hideout is certified.",
  "relatedNote": "These Bible readings are connected by theme or later setting; they are not direct accounts of this historical stop.",
  "passages": [],
  "related": [
    {
      "range": [
        4025006,
        4025013
      ],
      "kind": "recollection",
      "note": "First Maccabees explicitly invokes Phinehas as a precedent for Mattathias’s zeal; comparison should include the difficult violence in both accounts.",
      "reference": "Numbers 25:6–13",
      "translation": "bsb",
      "url": "https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Numbers%2025%3A6%E2%80%9313&version=BSB"
    }
  ],
  "places": [
    {
      "id": "intertestamental-judea",
      "name": "Judea",
      "coordinate": [
        35.05,
        31.65
      ],
      "extent": [
        [
          34.65,
          31.25
        ],
        [
          35.5,
          32
        ]
      ],
      "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"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "modiin-area",
      "name": "Modiin area",
      "coordinate": [
        35,
        31.92
      ],
      "extent": [
        [
          34.9,
          31.82
        ],
        [
          35.1,
          32.02
        ]
      ],
      "kind": "Region",
      "confidence": "Approximate region",
      "confidenceSource": "editorial",
      "sources": [
        {
          "label": "1 Maccabees 2 and geographical note; area only, not an identified village",
          "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1maccabees/2"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "mapPeriod": "second-temple-judea",
  "further": [
    {
      "label": "1 Maccabees 2 and geographical note; area only, not an identified village",
      "url": "https://bible.usccb.org/bible/1maccabees/2"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "sources": [
      {
        "name": "editorial",
        "ref": "content/authored/between-testaments.json"
      }
    ],
    "review": "draft"
  },
  "eraName": "Between the Testaments",
  "interactiveUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/?event=mattathias-modiin",
  "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/mattathias-modiin/",
  "markdownUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/mattathias-modiin/index.md",
  "jsonUrl": "https://wilderness-scripture-atlas.pages.dev/reference/events/mattathias-modiin/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": "7f030429af1f37a0"
}