Nawrot, Janusz2025-05-072025-05-072025"The Biblical Annals", 2025, Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 211-2272451-2168https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12153/8644The First Book of Maccabees contains many hapax legomena, including διχοστασία men­tioned in the title of this article, recorded in 3:29. The author attempts to answer what role this term plays in the divinely inspired text and why it was used there. Is it a mere lexical enrichment of the author’s writ­ing, or does it have a deeper theological meaning? Does it contain something that privileges it over other related terms since it was used? An analysis of the role of the term in question in 3:29 will help address the questions above. When writing about discord or rebellion, does the hagiographer employ other Greek concepts that he could also use in 1 Macc 3:29? Finally, what does Greek extra-biblical literature contribute to the understanding of the noun διχοστασία potentially influencing its intentional use in the verse under examination.enAttribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Old TestamentSeptuagintThe First Book of the Maccabeeshapax legomenonexegesisinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article10.31743/ba.17175