yep,i agree at times i post links and think "well,i did a good job of researching,this and this and this,,,,but then i don't agree with that",,,,,it makes me wonder about the other books in the Septuagint(the ones left out of our modern bibles),,,Jesus and the apostles quoted from many of these in the new testament,,, so if Christ quoted from them are they to be considered valid scripture????
that is if he(Jesus) quoted from 1maccabees,,and we then should at least consider it,,,well then in it are letters from Jerusalem to the king of Sparta and the establishment that they(the Spartans) were descendents of Abraham,from the tribe of dan.,,,but then that would mean that a Jew,from the tribe of Dan then would have spoken Doric Greek and then one would have necessity to recon his name in the Greek,although he was a jew. but Christ would have said that,,
he would have said they were dwelling in the very seat of satin (rev.2;13),,,he would have said they practiced idol worship such as the two bull or ba-laam(rev.2;14),,in the same connection as the danite children adopted this practice from mount hermon and spread out. or the very interesting discussion of the calculation of the Jewish name in greek,that is "let he that hath wisdom "count"=phephizo,
Greek Lexicon :: G5585 (KJV)
and if that was so he(Christ in this same letter,to the same church(pergomos),,
Kingdoms of Anatolia - Pergamum and would have linked back to the same wording rev. 2;17,,a "white stone",,that is instead of having voted for or against (yes stone=white),,,or(black stone=no),,he(Christ) would have made this connection..
but thats only if Christ quoted from 1maccabes
https://www.google.com/search?clien...a=X&ei=fyVQUoaAB5Pu9AS1noD4Dw&ved=0CCkQvwUoAA ,,,,then i guess it would spark a curiosity to search for letters written between Jerusalem and the king of Sparta about their kinship
https://www.google.com/search?q=lat...inship&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&spell=1 ,,,,,