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The Untold Records of Ancient Yashar'al (Israel)
Every entry in the record, number to number, from the sources themselves. 100 accounts of what actually happened.
- Did Antiochus IV Actually Order Yashar'al to Abandon Their Ancestral Instructions?
- Did They Actually Order the Continual Offering to Stop?
- Did Antiochus's Government Actually Prohibit Shabbath?
- Were the Appointed Times of Yashar'al Also Targeted?
- Could Circumcising Your Son Get You Killed?
- Were Mothers Actually Killed for Circumcising Their Children?
- Did They Really Hang Circumcised Infants from Their Mothers?
- Did They Actually Tear up and Burn Copies of the Turah?
- Could Possessing a Copy of the Bariyth Writings Get You Killed?
- Did Antiochus's Persecution Force People to Choose Between Eating Prohibited Food and Dying?
- Did They Actually Force Yashar'al to Sacrifice Swine and Other Prohibited Animals?
- Was an Elderly Man Really Tortured to Death for Refusing to Eat Pork?
- Were Seven Brothers Tortured in Front of Their Mother for Refusing Pork?
- Does the Ancient Account Really Say Their Tongues, Hands, and Feet Were Cut Off?
- Were Women Thrown from a City Wall Because They Circumcised Their Children?
- Were People Actually Burned to Death While Secretly Observing Shabbath?
- Were People Forced to Participate in Foreign Festivals and Ritual Practices?
- Was This Really an Attempt to Erase the Distinct Way of Life of Yashar'al?
- Did They Plan to Capture Yashar'al and Sell Them as Slaves to Pay Money Owed to Rome?
- Did the Seleucid Government Later Admit That Abolishing Their Ancestral Instructions Caused the Revolt?
- What Did Rome Actually Do to Yahrushalam in 70 CE?
- Did Rome Really Burn the Sanctuary in Yahrushalam?
- Did Josephus Really Claim More Than One Million People Died During the Siege?
- What Did Rome Do with the People It Captured After Yahrushalam Fell?
- Did Rome Take Money That Had Gone to the Sanctuary and Force Yahudim to Pay It to Rome Instead?
- Did Titus Actually Use Captives from Yashar'al as Human Entertainment After the War?
- Did Rome Parade the Sacred Objects Taken from Yahrushalam Through the Streets of Rome?
- Can You Still See Rome's Depiction of the Captured Menorah Today?
- Did Rome Actually Mint Money Celebrating the Defeat of Yahudah?
- Did Roman Money Actually Depict Yahudah as a Mourning Woman After the Conquest?
- Did Titus Select Captives Specifically Because They Looked Impressive Enough for His Roman Triumph?
- Did Rome Actually Recreate the Destruction of Yashar'al as Entertainment During the Triumph?
- Did a Roman Soldier Publicly Expose Himself Toward the People During Pasakh and Help Trigger a Deadly Disaster?
- Did Another Roman Soldier Actually Burn a Copy of the Turah?
- Did Rome Actually Make Captives Fight Each Other to the Death?
- Did Rome Rebuild Yahrushalam as a Roman City and Give It a Roman Name?
- Were Yahudim Actually Forbidden from Entering Yahrushalam After the Bar Kokhba Revolt?
- Did Rome Build a Sanctuary to Jupiter at the Site of the Refounded City?
- Did the Leadership of the Yahrushalam Assembly Change from Circumcised Hebrew Leaders to a Gentile Leader After Hadrian?
- How Catastrophic Was Rome's Defeat of the Bar Kokhba Revolt?
- Did Justin Martyr Really Say Yashar'al's Scriptures Were "Not Yours, but Ours"?
- Was "Not Yours, but Ours" Just One Sentence, or Part of a Bigger Claim?
- Did Justin Argue Circumcision, Shabbath, and Appointed Times Were Given Because of Yashar'al's Wrongdoing?
- Did Justin Identify His Group with the "True" Yashar'al?
- Did "Christian" Exist in Justin's Greek, or Was It Added Later by Translators?
- Did Justin Make These Claims Before Constantine and Nicaea?
- Did Justin Use the Nabiym of Yashar'al to Argue Against Yashar'al?
- Did Justin Claim His Group's Offerings Were More Acceptable Than Trypho's People's?
- Did Melito of Sardis Directly Accuse "Israel" of Killing the One He Identified as Divine?
- Did Melito's Accusation Against Yashar'al Exist Before Constantine?
- Were Assemblies in Asia Still Observing Pasakh on the Fourteenth Day Long Before Constantine?
- Did Those Assemblies Claim Their Fourteenth-day Practice Came from Earlier Followers?
- Did Polycrates Say He Would Not "Add" or "Take Away" When Defending the Fourteenth Day?
- Did a Leader in Rome Actually Try to Cut off Entire Assemblies Over the Pasakh Date?
- Did Other Leaders Actually Rebuke Victor for Trying to Cut off the Asian Assemblies?
- Does the Pasakh Controversy Prove Sunday Pasakh Was Not Universally Observed from the Beginning?
- Did the Council of Antioch Later Threaten People Who Observed Pasakh with the Yahudim?
- Did a Fourth-century Council Actually Order People Not to Rest on Shabbath?
- Did Laodicea Also Prohibit Sharing Festival Gifts and Celebrations with Yahudim?
- Did Laodicea Actually Prohibit Accepting Unleavened Bread from Yahudim?
- Did Constantine Really Say It Was "Unworthy" to Follow the Yahudi Practice for Pasakh?
- Did Constantine Describe the Yahudim as Having "Defiled Their Hands" and Being Blind in Soul?
- Did Constantine Say "Let Us Have Nothing in Common" with the Yahudim?
- Did Constantine Directly Tell the Assemblies to Abandon the Yahudi Pasakh Custom?
- Did Constantine Make Sunday a Legally Protected Day of Rest?
- Did Constantine Pass a Law Against People Who Converted to Yahudi Practice?
- Did Constantine Protect Yahudim Who Converted to Christianoi from Retaliation?
- Did Constantine Really Order Fifty Copies of the Sacred Writings to Be Produced?
- Do We Know Exactly Which Books Were Inside Constantine's Fifty Copies?
- Did Constantine Use Imperial Power to Help Standardize Religious Practice?
- Did John Chrysostom Really Call the Synagogue a Brothel, a Theater, and a Den of Robbers?
- Did John Chrysostom Actually Say, "No Jew Adores God"?
- Why Was Chrysostom So Angry? Were Christianoi Still Going to Yahudi Festivals?
- Were Christianoi in Antioch Still Observing Yahudi Fasts?
- Did Chrysostom Admit Some Christianoi Respected the Yahudim and Considered Their Way of Life Venerable?
- Did Chrysostom Say the Synagogue Was a "Dwelling of Demons"?
- Did Chrysostom Tell His Audience to Intervene When Other Christianoi Were Participating in Yahudi Practices?
- Did Chrysostom's Sermons Prove Shabbath and Appointed Times Still Attracted Christianoi After Nicaea?
- Did Chrysostom Say What Had Once Been Required by the Turah Was Now Wrong to Observe?
- What Do Chrysostom's Sermons Actually Prove About the Separation from Yashar'al?
- Did Roman Law Actually Prohibit the Building of New Synagogues?
- Were Yahudim Barred from Certain Public Offices Under Roman Law?
- Could Rome Exclude Yahudim from Advantageous Offices While Still Forcing Burdensome Civic Duties?
- Did Roman Law Prohibit Yahudim from Owning Christian Slaves?
- Did Roman Law Actually Prohibit Marriage Between Yahudim and Christianoi?
- Could Converting Someone from Christianity to Yahudi Practice Become a Capital Crime?
- Did Rome Legally Stop New Synagogues While Allowing Existing Ones to Remain?
- Did Roman Law Ever Protect Synagogues from Christian Attack?
- Did Justinian Later Restrict the Legal Testimony of Yahudim Against Orthodox Christianoi?
- Did the Roman Christian Empire Create a Legal Hierarchy Between Christianoi and Yahudim?
- Did Emperor Justinian Actually Intervene in How Yahudim Read Their Own Sacred Writings Inside Their Synagogues?
- Did Justinian Actually Promote the Greek Septuagint for Synagogue Reading?
- Did Justinian Accuse Yahudi Interpreters of Hiding or Corrupting the Meaning from Ordinary People?
- Did Justinian Actually Ban the "Deuterosis" from Yahudi Religious Use?
- Did Justinian Threaten Yahudi Leaders with Corporal Punishment and Confiscation If They Blocked His Scripture-reading Policy?
- Did Justinian's Law Actually Threaten Death Over Certain Beliefs Inside the Yahudi Community?
- Did Justinian Openly Want Yahudim to Read Their Own Writings Through Christian Theology?
- Did Justinian Allow Aquila's Greek Translation Even Though It Differed from the Septuagint?
- Did Justinian Claim the Septuagint Translators Miraculously Produced the Same Text?
- Did the Roman Empire Eventually Claim Authority Over How Yahudim Could Read, Translate, and Interpret Their Own Sacred Writings?