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2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees, also known as the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt against him. It concludes with the defeat of the Seleucid Empire general Nicanor in 161 BC by Judas Maccabeus, the leader of the…

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related to Structure · 64
2 Maccabees → Adasa, Alcimus, Ammon, Antioch, Antiochus IV, At, Battle, BC, Beth Zechariah, Beth Zur, Chapter, Demetrius, Dorymenes, Egypt, Eleazar, Emmaus, Epitomist's, Four, God, Gorgias
related to Bibliography · 52
2 Maccabees → Anatomy, Attridge, Augsburg Fortress Press, Bar-Kochva, Bartlett, Berlin, Bezalel, Biblical Revolution, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, Collegeville Township, Commentaries, Commentary, Critical Commentary, Daniel, Doran, Doubleday, Early Jewish Literature, Eugene, First
related to Further reading · 51
2 Maccabees → Aristeas, Biblical Literature, Borchardt, Catholic Biblical Association, Catholic Biblical Quarterly Monograph, Character, Classical Philology, Coetzer, Cyrene Reconsidered, DC, Doran, Eugene, Francis, Greek Education, Habicht, Harvard Studies, Heroes, History, II Maccabees, Indigenous Revolts
related to Controversy in the Reformation era · 36
2 Maccabees → Another, Calvin, Catholic, Catholic Church, Catholics, Chapter, Christian, Clichtove, Disavowl, Esther, God, God's, Greek Septuagint, He, Hebrew Bible, Jean Calvin, Jeremiah, Josse, Judas, Latin Vulgate
related to Hellenistic Judaism · 35
2 Maccabees → AD, Alexander, Alexandria, Both, Chief Priest, Christianity, Christians, Dead Sea Scrolls, Essenes, Great, Greek, Greek-speaking Hellenistic Jews, Greek-speaking Jews, Hasmonean, Hasmoneans, Hebrew, Hebrew Bible, Hellenistic Judaism, Jewish, Jews
related to Authorship and composition date · 33
2 Maccabees → Alexandria, BC, BCE, Cyrene, Egyptian Jew, Epilogue, Greek, Greek Jewish, Hanukkah, Hasmonean, Hebrew, Hellenistic Egypt, If, It, Jason, Jason's, Jerusalem, Jews, Judea, Maccabean Revolt
related to history · 23
2 Maccabees → Adasa, Antiochus IV, Antiochus's, Archaeological, As, Battle, Beth Zur, By, Egyptian, For, In, Jason, Judea, Judean, Lysias, Maccabean Revolt, Maccabees, Samaria, Seleucid, Skeptical
related to Literary influence · 23
2 Maccabees → Antiochus IV, As, Book, Daniel, Egypt, Egyptian Jews, Eleazar, God, God's, Hannah, Hebrews, Jewish, Judea, Maccabean, Maccabean Revolt, Maccabees, Miriam, Shmouni, Stoic, The
related to Christianity in the era of the Roman Empire · 18
2 Maccabees → AD, Apostolic Canons, Augustine, Carthage, Christian, Christian Old Testament, Council, Gelasian Decree, Hippo, In, Jerome, Maccabees, Pope Damasus I's Council, Pope Innocent, Rome, Septuagint, Synod, The
related to Manuscripts · 17
2 Maccabees → Additionally, Akhmimic Coptic, Antioch, Armenian, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Venetus, Early, Greek, Lucian, Lucianic, Maccabees, Pre-modern Latin, Robert Hanhart, Septuagint, Syriac

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maccabees work jews book bc temple jewish revolt greek written maccabean iv author antiochus judas dead nicanor septuagint second history

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