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Why did King Antiochus force Greek culture and religion onto the Jews?
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Many people are unaware that the Syrian-Greeks (Seleucids, under Antiochus) were not the ones who initiated the outlawing of Torah-observances. It was the assimilationist Hellenized Jews, who actively petitioned the Syrian-Greeks to create and enforce the anti-religious decrees, outlawing Sabbath-observance and other Torah-commands. The Greeks, for their part, on more than one occasion wondered out loud why they had gotten so entangled in the internal life of the Jews (since simple governance and taxation had until then been the focus of their involvement).See also:
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