The events themselves: what happened, where the retelling has drifted from the text, and what the scene was really like.
16 studies, 0 as cards, 16 in the register
The register: 16 studies of this kind
- “Great Is Truth.” The Three GuardsmenThree royal guardsmen answer what is strongest, wine, the king, or women, and the third answer swerves into Truth, winning the contest and a temple.
- Asmodeus and the Unseen WarA demon named Asmodeus kills seven bridegrooms to stop one covenant marriage, until the angel Raphael chases him to Egypt and binds him.
- Ezra's Questions God AnswersWritten a generation after the temple fell in AD 70, this book pours the era's grief into Ezra's questions about why the wicked prosper and why Zion suffered.
- Hanukkah: the Feast the Revolt MadeHanukkah began as Judas Maccabeus's decree to keep the temple's rededication every year for eight days, the only biblical-era feast founded between the Testaments.
- Heliodorus in the TreasuryA royal officer sent to seize the Jerusalem temple treasury is struck down by a rider and two young men before he can touch it, then carried out helpless.
- Judas Maccabeus, the HammerJudas Maccabeus led an outnumbered guerrilla army for six years on the creed that with the God of heaven it is all one to deliver by many or by few, the same faith Jonathan spoke at Michmash.
- Judith/Judith The Widow
- Raphael, the Angel on the RoadA hired travel guide walks nine chapters beside Tobias, guiding, healing, and binding a demon, before revealing himself as the angel Raphael.
- Susanna and the Two JudgesTwo judges threaten Susanna with death unless she sins with them, and she chooses death over sin.
- The God Who Gets NamedCanonical Esther never once names God, but the six Greek additions supply prayers, a prophetic dream, and the divine name throughout.
- The Idol Who Ate NothingDaniel proves the idol Bel is not alive by sifting ashes across the sealed temple floor and finding the priests' footprints in the morning, since they had been sneaking in nightly to eat the offered food themselves.
- The Ninety-Four BooksIn a vision around AD 100, Ezra re-dictates the burned Scriptures, and heaven splits the result into books published openly and books kept for the wise alone.
- The Road to EcbatanaTobit's journey runs through five real places of the Assyrian exile, from Nineveh through the Tigris to Ecbatana and back.
- The Seven Brothers and Their MotherSeven brothers and their mother are tortured to death one at a time under Antiochus, each confessing that the King of the world will raise them up.
- The Song in the FurnaceThis page reads the Greek addition to Daniel 3, sixty-eight verses of prayer and praise sung inside the furnace, and lays out who the fourth man in Daniel 3:25 was.
- The Worst King's PrayerThis page traces Manasseh's repentance in 2 Chronicles 33 and reads the fifteen-verse Prayer that later tradition wrote to fill the gap the Chronicler left.
