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  2. 2 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    [74] 2 Maccabees is found in the 5th century Codex Alexandrinus which includes all of 1, 2, 3, and 4 Maccabees, as well as the 8th century Codex Venetus. 2 Maccabees is missing from the Codex Vaticanus (which lacks any of the books of Maccabees) and the Codex Sinaiticus (which includes 1 and 4 Maccabees, but neither 2 nor 3 Maccabees). [75]

  3. Chapters of 2 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    Scholars differ on which version is the most reliable between 2 Maccabees, 1 Maccabees, and Josephus. [ 44 ] [ 45 ] [ 46 ] The detail that Antiochus personally entered the Jewish temple is corroborated in the non-Jewish history of Diodorus Siculus , suggesting that his profaning of the Temple was notable even to pagan audiences.

  4. List of books of the King James Version - Wikipedia

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    Danielis caput 14: Daniel chapter 14: The History of the Destruction of Bel and the Dragon Prayer of Manasses: Oratio Manassae regis: Prayer of Manasses: The Prayer of Manasses King of Juda when he was holden captive in Babylon 1 Maccabees: 1 Machabaeorum: 1 Machabees: The First Book of the Maccabees 2 Maccabees: 2 Machabaeorum: 2 Machabees

  5. Maccabean Revolt - Wikipedia

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    [75] 2 Maccabees also represents an attempt to take the cause of the Maccabees outside Judea, as it encourages Egyptian Jews and other diaspora Jews to celebrate the cleansing of the temple (Hanukkah) and revere Judas Maccabeus. [75] [69] In general, 2 Maccabees portrays the prospects of peace and cooperation more positively than 1 Maccabees ...

  6. Jason of Cyrene - Wikipedia

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    [2] As the date of authorship of 2 Maccabees is unknown, so too is the date of Jason's work, other than that it must be prior to the abridgment. Most believe 2 Maccabees to have been written around 100 BCE, with some such as Daniel Schwartz suggesting even earlier dates as around 150 BCE. Many scholars believe that Jason was likely a ...

  7. Books of the Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    [2] 4 Maccabees, a Greek philosophic discourse that praises the supremacy of reason over passion, using the Maccabean martyrs as examples. [2] 5 Maccabees, an Arabic text which offers an account of the history of the Maccabees from 186 BC to 6 BC. The same title is occasionally ascribed to a Syriac version of the 6th book of Josephus' The ...

  8. Woman with seven sons - Wikipedia

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    Other versions of the story are found in 4 Maccabees (which suggests that the woman might have thrown herself into the flames, 17:1) and Josippon (which says she fell dead on her sons' corpses [2]). The Josippon version of the story probably was paraphrased from a Latin version of 2 Maccabees, and was notable as the first major exposure of ...

  9. Intercession of saints - Wikipedia

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    The deuterocanonical book 2 Maccabees 12:43–46 speaks explicitly about the prayer of the living for the dead: "And making a gathering, he sent twelve thousand drachms of silver to Jerusalem for sacrifice to be offered for the sins of the dead, thinking well and religiously concerning the resurrection, (For if he had not hoped that they that ...

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