Eleazar was a Jewish man whose story is portrayed in 2 Maccabees 6:18-31. Verse 18 describes him as "one of the leading teachers of the law", and "of distinguished bearing".[1] According to verse 24 he was ninety at the time of his death. Under a persecution instigated by Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Eleazar was forced to open his mouth and eat pork, but he spat it out and submitted to flogging.[2] He was then privately permitted to eat meat that he could pretend was pork, but he refused and was flogged to death. The narrator relates that in his death he left "a heroic example and a glorious memory," (verse 31).[1]
The Martyrdom of Eleazar the Scribe by Gustave Doré, 1866.
Eleazar also appears in the book 3 Maccabees, although that book is generally distrusted as a reliable source of history. It is set decades earlier than the reign of Antiochus IV in Ptolemaic Egypt rather than Judea. In it, Eleazar prays for deliverance of the Jews of Egypt, and God sends two invisible angels in response to his prayer who turn Ptolemy's elephants against his own men rather than the Jews. The Eleazar there is not explicitly identified as the same as the Eleazar of 2 Maccabees, but is described in similar terms, and seems to be a literary reference (as the Eleazar there is already described as old, but should be middle-aged if he was really the same person).[3]
Further reading
2 Maccabees 6:18–31
Duffy, Daniel Philip (1909). "Eleazar" . In Herbermann, Charles (ed.). Catholic Encyclopedia. Vol. 5. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
Friedrich Justus Knecht (1910). "The Martyrdom of Eleazar" . A Practical Commentary on Holy Scripture. B. Herder.
^The New English Bible uses the word "flogged" in verses 19 and 28, whereas the Authorised Version has "torment". The original word is tympanum, which was a "circular drum-like rack on which the martyr was broken to death". The Old Testament According to the Authorised Version With Brief Commentary by Various Authors. The Apocryphal Books: Esdras to Maccabees (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1902).
^Hadas, Moses (1953). The Third and Fourth Books of Maccabees. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 12; 70–71. LCCN 53-5114.. See 3 Maccabees 6:1–24
January 06, 2023
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