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  2. Books of the Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    1 Maccabees, originally written in Hebrew and only surviving in a Greek translation, it contains an account of the history of the Maccabees from 175 BC until 134 BC. [1] 2 Maccabees, Jason of Cyrene's Greek abridgment of an earlier history which was written in Hebrew, recounts the history of the Maccabees from 176 BC until 161 BC. [1]

  3. 1 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    The book 2 Maccabees, preserved right next to 1 Maccabees in the Septuagint, provides a striking contrast in theology, and the works are often compared. [ 51 ] 2 Maccabees interprets the misfortunes of the Jews as God's punishment for their own sins; the author of 1 Maccabees depicts the problems as due to the external evil of Antiochus IV and ...

  4. 2 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    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). Additionally, other ancient fragments have been found, albeit with some attributed to Lucian of Antioch who is considered to have "improved" some of his ...

  5. Chapters of 2 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    Among scholars who argue that the book of 2 Maccabees was written as a response to 1 Maccabees or by a Pharisee enemy of the Hasmonean dynasty, the story in Idumea, where Simon Thassi's men take an astronomical bribe (70,000 drachmas was gigantic in the era), Judas returns, executes the leaders that took the bribe, then conquers the towers ...

  6. Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    —Flavius Josephus, The War of the Jews, Book 1.1 §2. The author of the First Book of Maccabees regards the Maccabean revolt as a rising of pious Jews against the Seleucid king (who had tried to eradicate their religion) and against the Jews who supported him. The author of the Second Book of Maccabees presents the conflict as a struggle ...

  7. Biblical apocrypha - Wikipedia

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    1 Maccabees; 2 Maccabees (Included in this list are those books of the Clementine Vulgate that were not in Luther's canon). These are the books most frequently referred to by the casual appellation "the Apocrypha". These same books are also listed in Article VI of the Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England. [42]

  8. Category:Books of the Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    English. Read; Edit; View history; Tools. ... People in the books of the Maccabees (1 C, 18 P) S. Sacred prostitution ... 1 Maccabees; 2 Maccabees;

  9. Letter of Jeremiah - Wikipedia

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    2 Maccabees 2:1–3 ... Alban Books Limited. ISBN 978-1-56563-693-4. ... Introduction and Text of the Letter of Ieremias from the New English Translation of the ...

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