History of the Day
History of the Day: Did Antiochus IV Order Yashar'al to Abandon Their Ancestral Instructions? · ZoreaYahu
Published September 6, 2026 at 23:14 UTC
Today's question from the record - what actually happened, and why it still matters.
1 Maccabees describes a royal decree ordering the people under Antiochus to conform to a common program, and the decree specifically reaches Yashar'al's ancestral practices. The account says they...