TRBC 2024 CLASS

NAME: MUKUI MWELU MARY

UNIT NAME: APOSTALIC VIEW OF SCRIPTURES

UNIT CODE: CAM100AVS

LECTURER: RICHARD E.S TAKIM

ASSIGNMENT: ASSIGNMENT 13

DATE OF SUBMISSION: TUESDAY 21st MAY 2024

QUESTION: which place in the Hebrew canons of the holy scriptures confirm the historic facts of
activities of Seleucid 1. State what happened and how the fathers handled it.

Answers:

1. During the reign of Seleucid 1, the high priest ruled the Jews, one was Joshua the high priest.
Zechariah 3 and Haggai 1:1
2. Aliens (non-Jews) came in the land of Israel and lions were even eating them because they did
not know the laws of the land. 1st kings 13
3. There was the introduction of foreign gods to the Jews, like the god artemis, zeus,hermes.
Evidence of these gods can be seen in, acts 19:34,28:11,14:12
4. The enforcement of the Hellenist culture, that is, the forceful adoption of the Greek culture by
the Jews, was also a fact of Seleucid 1 activities. Acts 4:29
5. The emergence of the Samaritans through Babylonian and Jewish intermarriages that brought a
radicle racial and religious difference between the Jews and Samaritans. John 4:9
6. There was emergence of perverted persons, sodomites and prostitutes in religious rituals as was
common in the Greek religious culture.1st kings 14:24
7. Johannan the high priest was reportedly slayed by his brother at the confines of the temple. His
brother Jaddua succeeded him. Nehemiah 12:22

How the fathers handled it

 The Maccabean revolt and the conquests of the hasmonean dynasty are written in the books of
Maccabees 1&2. The Maccabees openly celebrated the hasmonean dynasty, which was full of
corruption.
 The fathers could not canonize such writings, which were full of inaccuracies and had a lower
form of writing in regard to authority and authenticity from God. The writings celebrated human
conquests, religion and politics more than the works and deeds of God.
 These writings and events happened during the intertestamental period ( The 400 years of
silence) when God did not raise any new prophets or sent any new messages to the Jewish
people that’s why this book was rejected .