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Should We believe the Account of Heliodorus's Failed Roberry of the Temple?
In Second Macabees, the writer reckunts how soon before the persecutions preceding the Macabean revolt accoured, word came to the governor that the temple had much money within it, and he sent his treasurer Heliodorus with guards to take it. After demanding to be given it, the high priest...- Sam Jer
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A Possibly More Credible Origin Story for the LXX
Philadelphus was the king of Egypt, in the days that the Ptolemaic dynasty ruled over Egypt and Judea. When he, an avid book collector, heard of the scriptures, he desired to have them translated and added to his library. One of the king's friends, Aristeus, desired to free the many enslaved...- Sam Jer
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