Divrei Yosippon — Sefer Yosippon — Chapter 13: The Decrees of Antiochus

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13:1

Antiochus imposes decrees against the ancestral way: circumcision, Shabbat, Torah study, and covenant practices are attacked.

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13:2

Idolatrous rites are forced upon communities and pork or forbidden sacrificial food becomes a test of submission.

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13:3

Some comply under terror; others accept dispossession, torture, or death rather than abandon the command.

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13:4

The chapter frames the conflict as imperial coercion against covenant life, not merely a dispute over private religion.

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