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"...by the late 40s...persons in the villages of Judea or Galilee who maintained close relationships with gentiles or who did not zealously seek the purity of Israel were in mortal danger. The Zealots patterned themselves after Phineas... Their programme was to continue the works of Judas Maccabeus who had 'destroyed the ungodly out of the land; thus he turned away wrath from Israel' I Macc 38."
--"The Agitators and the Galatian Congregation" NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES #17.
--"The Agitators and the Galatian Congregation" NEW TESTAMENT STUDIES #17.