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After reclaiming the Temple, Judas sent two men west to a republic that had broken kings. A treaty came back, inscribed in bronze at Rome.
Granted one thing from a burning city, a wife carries out her husband, while a Roman officer's wager that no wife keeps a secret turns on him.
Rome sealed Jerusalem until a starving mother ate the child she once weighed against silver, while the sword took Israel's greatest sages.
Shapur demands his own dream, a Caesar sets a riddle of a rotting foot, and a queen mocks the resurrection, and three sages answer back.
Rome decreed teaching Torah was death, so one rabbi taught in the open and burned in the scroll, and one took three hundred spears to save the chain.
Rabbi Ishmael seated the Sanhedrin at the Temple gate and laid out fifteen signs, three wars, and a figure emerging from Edom in crimson garments.
Rome commands armies but cannot command the record kept above, where Lupinus Caesar is summoned, named, and judged before he knows it.
The emperor ordered his statue into the Temple's holy precincts, and Jewish crowds gathered without weapons to offer their own bodies instead.
Roman soldiers eat the wedding birds and a rebellion ignites. Bar Deroa holds the army off until he says God forgot them. Then a snake finishes it.
A boy memorized part of Genesis before soldiers captured him. When an emperor calls for a book no one can read, the prisoner is brought from his cell.
Judas Maccabee counted his enemies and chose the one empire that had crushed every other kingdom. He was betting Judea could survive among giants.
