Maccabee
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Brings events of history to vivid life
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| Written by former international mission worker David C. Carson, Maccabee is a historical novelization of mid-2nd century, when a Syrian king called Antiochus Epiphanes sought to exterminate the Jewish nation. One elderly priest and his five sons dared to resist; and one of those sons would become known to future generations as Maccabee. Told in first-person perspective, Maccabee is as dark as is to be expected of a chronicle of genocide and resistance, and brings events of history to vivid life. "They came to our town and set up an altar to their pagan god. They wanted my great-grandfather to offer a sacrifice they had brought with them - a swine... My great-grandfather refused... He said God had given him ninety years on this earth and that he would not dishonor God now. Because he refused, the Syrians tied him to a post and beat him with a whip until his insides fell out. They made us all watch. I saw it all, and I heard his last words as they were beating him to death. He looked at all of us and said, 'I have great pain in the body, but I have joy in my soul because I have stayed true to God.'" Highly recommended. |
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