Writing Archive
Essays, commentary, and Bible-study writing carried over from the original site and organized for easier reading.
Simon “I’m too old for this shit” Maccabee finally taps out and hands the family blood-feud business to his sons, because nothing says “healthy succession plan” like immediate warfare and a leadership hand-off sponsored…
Pronouns? Useless. Names? Recycled like a church bulletin. In this 1 Maccabees 11â15 Q&A , we finally stop the âhe said to him who said to himâ madness long enough to make a damn…
Pronouns? Useless. Names? Recycled like a church bulletin. In this 1 Maccabees 11–15 Q&A, we finally stop the “he said to him who said to him” madness long enough to make a damn Seleucid…
Today on Sacrilegious Discourse, we slog through 1 Maccabees 15, aka “Everyone Writes Letters and Nobody Explains Anything.” It opens with yet another Antiochus (because apparently they’re naming babies like they’re recycling passwords), who…
Demetrius finally gets scooped up like a sad little political Pokémon, and the text immediately slams the fast-forward button into “and then everything was chill forever” mode… allegedly. 1 Maccabees 14 is basically propaganda…
Simon steps up after Jonathan’s betrayal-and-capture situation turns into a full-on “Greek politics but make it messy” episode. 1 Maccabees 13 opens with panic—Trifon’s marching, everyone’s terrified, then Simon does the classic leader move:…
Jonathan decides the Seleucid soap opera is getting way too pronoun-heavy, so he does what any ancient politician with commitment issues would do, he slides into Rome’s DMs to “renew the friendship.” Because nothing…
1 Maccabees 11 is basically Game of Thrones if every character had the same three names and the narrator kept shouting “he” like it explains anything. Ptolemy rolls into Syria “with words of peace”…
Pronouns in 1 Maccabees 8–10 are doing crimes against clarity, so we hit pause and run a full-on Q&A intervention. Judas hears about Rome (yes, that Rome), decides “distant empire bestie” is a solid…
Pronouns in 1 Maccabees 8â10 are doing crimes against clarity, so we hit pause and run a full-on Q&A intervention. Judas hears about Rome (yes, that Rome), decides âdistant empire bestieâ is a solid…
