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Why did he build a gymnasium in Jerusalem?
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Well if you're going to have Greek education
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you have to have a gymnasium.
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This--he also founded a Greek polis,
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that is as Greek city structure
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and Jason apparently paid Antiochus for the privilege of
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having Jerusalem recognized as a greek city.
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This would have consolidated the power of those Jewish leaders
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who wanted to press Greek culture more rather than
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those Jewish leaders who wanted to hold back on Greek culture.
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Because, if you control the gymnasium,
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and you control the means of education,