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calendar convention.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CAN-01-C01", "grade": "A", "text": "Daniel 7 presents the Ancient of Days as sovereign judge over beastly kingdoms and removes the dominion of oppressive powers.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CAN-01-C02", "grade": "A", "text": "Daniel 7 presents one like a son of man receiving everlasting dominion and the saints receiving the kingdom within the vision's final vindication horizon.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CAN-02-C01", "grade": "A", "text": "Daniel 8 explicitly identifies the ram with Media/Persia and the goat with Greece in the angelic interpretation.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CAN-02-C02", "grade": "A", "text": "Daniel 8 depicts an arrogant persecuting ruler who attacks the holy people/sanctuary order and is finally broken without human hand.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { 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"Beth Zur appears in the subsequent campaign narrative as another major confrontation in the approach to Jerusalem.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CTX-06-C01", "grade": "B", "text": "1 Maccabees describes the purification of the Jerusalem sanctuary, reconstruction or replacement of profaned cultic installations, and renewed sacrifice.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CTX-06-C02", "grade": "B", "text": "1 Maccabees dates the dedication to the twenty-fifth of Kislev in the 148th Seleucid year and describes an eight-day celebration.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": "P15-G3-CTX-06-C03", "grade": "B", "text": "2 Maccabees independently within its own epitomized source chain also describes sanctuary purification and an eight-day celebration, providing a bounded comparative witness without erasing source dependence and chronological differences.", "qualification": "", "sourceLoci": "" }, { "claimId": 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