Maccabees: When God Stopped Rescuing the Faithful
From Data Over Dogma.
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This week it's Chapter and Verse, and we're back in the apocrypha with 2 Maccabees 6. Antiochus IV is forcing Jews to eat pork as a public loyalty test, and a ninety-year-old scribe named Eleazar decides the rack is the better option — even after his old friends quietly offer him a way out.
We dig into what makes this the ultimate costly signal, why the author hammers the moral home about six separate times, and what it means that Eleazar, unlike the seven sons in the very next chapter, never once mentions resurrection.
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Chapters:
0:00 Back Into the Maccabees
1:36 Antiochus and Forced Hellenization
2:54 The Mother and Seven Sons
3:47 Meet Eleazar, Age Ninety
5:08 The Ultimate Costly Signal
5:44 Purity Culture and Chastity
6:56 Trained to Die for Faith
7:58 The Christmas Photo Escape
10:24 The Loophole He Refused
11:23 Gray Hair and Honor
12:46 A Speech for the Youth
14:20 Is Ninety Actually Brave?
15:01 Two Stories, Two Theologies
17:00 Rhetoric on the Rack
18:08 The Moral, Repeated Loudly
20:08 Where Resurrection Shows Up
23:03 Contrast With Daniel's Furnace
24:19 Martyrdom Becomes a Genre
26:15 Membership, Patreon, and Thanks
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Maccabees #Apocrypha #Martyrdom
We dig into what makes this the ultimate costly signal, why the author hammers the moral home about six separate times, and what it means that Eleazar, unlike the seven sons in the very next chapter, never once mentions resurrection.
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Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store:
https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/
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Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron:
https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma
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Listen to the podcast on every app:
https://pod.link/1681418502
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Follow us:
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Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So:
https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/
_______________________________________________
Chapters:
0:00 Back Into the Maccabees
1:36 Antiochus and Forced Hellenization
2:54 The Mother and Seven Sons
3:47 Meet Eleazar, Age Ninety
5:08 The Ultimate Costly Signal
5:44 Purity Culture and Chastity
6:56 Trained to Die for Faith
7:58 The Christmas Photo Escape
10:24 The Loophole He Refused
11:23 Gray Hair and Honor
12:46 A Speech for the Youth
14:20 Is Ninety Actually Brave?
15:01 Two Stories, Two Theologies
17:00 Rhetoric on the Rack
18:08 The Moral, Repeated Loudly
20:08 Where Resurrection Shows Up
23:03 Contrast With Daniel's Furnace
24:19 Martyrdom Becomes a Genre
26:15 Membership, Patreon, and Thanks
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#DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Maccabees #Apocrypha #Martyrdom
