on Roman conquest and rule as arrogance, insolence, and an affront against God. limits of his capabilities and aims. Unlike 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees focuses a lot on the conflict between Judaism and "Hellenism", . 54Then sounded they with trumpets, and cried with a loud voice. 1. 11When Judas learned of it, he went out to meet him and struck and killed him. Given To The Wild was an album that marked the zenith of their rise to new artistic heights. 1 Macc 2:46 Isaac T Soon Durham University, UK Abstract This article challenges the dominant reading of 1 Macc 2:46, both that (a) the syntagm means coercion and that (b) the literary context of 1 Maccabees understands the circumcising of the uncircumcised in 2:46 as coercive. source for a considerable part of this history, the work is so basic to our p. 135),