(May 19, 2015 at 2:21 am)Minimalist Wrote: Antiochus IV seems to be the beginning of the dispute between Hellenized Jews and primitive goat fuckers. (Think of modern baptists rolling around in vats of shit v smart people from the north.)
Prior to that, no one seems to have given a flying fuck about Judaea.
The fairy tale does a good job of hiding Antiochus IV except for his role in the Maccabee books and oblique references to him elsewhere. It tends for emphasize the Egyptians, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Persians instead of the Seleucids. I wouldn't be a bit surprised if the majority of Old Testament stories aren't actually about the Seleucids and Antiochus IV as the God character, even including him as the God character in the Moses story.
The God rants in the later Old Testament books are definitely something that could be attributed to Antiochus IV based upon his actions in history.
