jan 1, 165 BC - Menelaus letter
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In the Spring, Menelaus urges Antiochus IV Epiphanes to reinstate ancestral laws under his conditions (see third letter of 2 Macc 11:16-38 [the letters are out of order])
Tcherikover(?) and Doran see this as a failed attempt...
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