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This week it's Chapter and Verse, and we're back in the apocrypha with 2 Maccabees 6. Antiochus IV is forcing Jews to eat pork as a public loyalty test, and a ninety-year-old scribe named Eleazar decides the rack is the better option — even after his old friends quietly offer him a way out. We dig into what makes this the ultimate costly signal, why the author hammers the moral home about six separate times, and what it means that Eleazar, unlike the seven sons in the very next chapter, never once mentions resurrection. _______________________________________________ Get your Data Over Dogma merch at our online store: https://data-over-dogma-shop.fourthwall.com/ _______________________________________________ Support Data Over Dogma and get every episode early and ad-free, plus exclusive bonus content — become a patron: https://www.patreon.com/DataOverDogma _______________________________________________ Listen to the podcast on every app: https://pod.link/1681418502 _______________________________________________ Follow us: Instagram — https://www.instagram.com/dataoverdogmapod TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@data.over.dogma.pod Threads — https://www.threads.com/@dataoverdogmapod X — https://x.com/data_over_dogma Facebook — https://www.facebook.com/DataOverDogmaPod _______________________________________________ Get Dan McClellan's New York Times bestselling book, The Bible Says So: https://static.macmillan.com/static/smp/bible-says-so-9781250347466/ _______________________________________________ Chapters: 0:00 Back Into the Maccabees 1:36 Antiochus and Forced Hellenization 2:54 The Mother and Seven Sons 3:47 Meet Eleazar, Age Ninety 5:08 The Ultimate Costly Signal 5:44 Purity Culture and Chastity 6:56 Trained to Die for Faith 7:58 The Christmas Photo Escape 10:24 The Loophole He Refused 11:23 Gray Hair and Honor 12:46 A Speech for the Youth 14:20 Is Ninety Actually Brave? 15:01 Two Stories, Two Theologies 17:00 Rhetoric on the Rack 18:08 The Moral, Repeated Loudly 20:08 Where Resurrection Shows Up 23:03 Contrast With Daniel's Furnace 24:19 Martyrdom Becomes a Genre 26:15 Membership, Patreon, and Thanks _______________________________________________ #DataOverDogma #BibleScholarship #Maccabees #Apocrypha #Martyrdom