Simon Maccabeus's bronze decree

Simon Maccabeus is made high priest, ethnarch and commander by one decree, cut on bronze — with a suspension clause: until a faithful prophet should arise.

In plain words

Simon Maccabeus is made high priest, ruler and commander by one decree cut in bronze, valid until a faithful prophet should arise: the liberators become the new enclosers, throne and altar joined in one hereditary seat.

The mechanism

CAPTURE — the liberators become the enclosers. Throne welded to altar in a single hereditary seat, and the founding document names the one seat that could contradict it and declares it vacant

How it was checked

• EvidenceT6 PHYSICAL / MANUSCRIPT; Status: COMMITTED; a capture
• Letter eraTHE PROPHETS AND THE ROAD 776 BC to 4 BC
• SourcesARCHAEOLOGY / SECULAR RECORD — 1 Maccabees 14, the bronze decree