Category Archives: III Maccabees

Scattered Ramblings on Loving One’s Neighbor and Relationships

Posted on January 14, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

III Maccabees is about the attempt by King Ptolemy IV Philopator in the late third century B.C.E. to obliterate the Jews of Egypt, and God’s deliverance of the Jews.  In the course of this plot, God messes with Ptolemy’s brain, … Continue reading →

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Working with Who We Are?

Posted on January 12, 2015 by jamesbradfordpate

I was reading III Maccabees recently.  III Maccabees is about the attempt by King Ptolemy IV Philopator in the late third century B.C.E. to obliterate the Jews of Egypt.  But the king has a miraculous change of heart and turns … Continue reading →

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Stoic Martyrs

Posted on November 21, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

Source: John Sellars, Stoicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) 108-109. “If I am doing my best to be a rational being who is free and independent of others, then I will sometimes have to make choices that may appear … Continue reading →

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Still More on Maccabees and Theodicy

Posted on September 5, 2008 by jamesbradfordpate

I finished III Maccabees last night. III Maccabees is not actually about the Maccabees, for it relates to the persecution of the Jews under King Ptolemy Philopator of Egypt (221-203 B.C.E.). Ptolemy defeats the Seleucid Antiochus III at the Battle … Continue reading →

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