Answer the following questions in approx 600 words.Put in essay format. Must be referenced

and must use the readings as a basis from what I send you.

Questions:
1. Why is Antiochus IV?s persecution of the Jews considered problematic?
2. To what extent can the criticism at the bottom of p.220 (?Not one of these
reconstructions escapes from being selective in what it stresses as salient facts, and they
all must rely on speculation to fill in ? gaps in the documentation?) be leveled against
the writing of history in general?
3. What might be meant by the expression ?under-determination of evidence? in relation
to the cause of the persecution?
4. To what degree are the descriptions of Antiochus?s deeds similar to sacrilege topos
of Babylonian literature?
5. Can one speak of 1 Maccabees as propaganda? If so, what did it hope to achieve?