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    4 Maccabees, also called the Fourth Book of Maccabees and possibly originally known as On the Sovereignty of Reason, is a book written in Koine Greek...
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  • The Books of the Maccabees or the Sefer HaMakabim (the Book of the Maccabees) recount the history of the Maccabees, the leaders of the Jewish rebellion...
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  • 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...
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  • 1 Maccabees, also known as the First Book of Maccabees, First Maccabees, and abbreviated as 1 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which details the history...
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    The Maccabees (/ˈmækəbiːz/), also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: מַכַּבִּים, Makkabbīm or מַקַבִּים, Maqabbīm; Latin: Machabaei or Maccabaei; Ancient Greek:...
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  • 3 Maccabees, also called the Third Book of Maccabees, is a book written in Koine Greek, likely in the 1st century BC in either the late Ptolemaic period...
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     250. 4 Maccabees 6 1 Corinthians 15:3–8 Mack 1997, p. 85. Hurtado 2005, p. 131. Isaiah 53:4–11 4 Maccabees 6:28–29 4 Maccabees 6 4 Maccabees 6:28–29...
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    and Bel and the Dragon); the additions to Esther; 1 Maccabees; 2 Maccabees; 3 Maccabees; 4 Maccabees; 1 Esdras; Odes (including the Prayer of Manasseh);...
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    Verse 13 can be found in 1 Maccabees iii 7; vi. 52; v.; 2 Maccabees vi. 8 sqq., 13, 14; 1 Maccabees vii 41, 42; and 2 Maccabees x v, 8 sqq. Maccabeus was...
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  • under Antiochus IV as described in the prose Greek works 2 Maccabees and 4 Maccabees. 6 Maccabees is a conventional title based on the theory that it is an...
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    additions to Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, i.e. all of the Deuterocanonical books plus 3 Maccabees and 1 Esdras. Some editions...
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    written. It shares an outlook similar to that of other texts such as 4 Maccabees, Letter of Aristeas, and the works of Philo, which all came from this...
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  • Oriental Orthodox Church: Prayer of Manasseh 1 Esdras 2 Esdras 3 Maccabees 4 Maccabees as an appendix Psalm 151 Deuterocanonical is a term coined in 1566...
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  • החיצוני) 2 Esdras (חזון עזרא) 1 Maccabees ('ספר מכבים א) 2 Maccabees (ספר מכבים ב׳) 3 Maccabees (ספר מכבים ג׳) 4 Maccabees (ספר מכבים ד׳) Additions to the...
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  • The book 2 Maccabees contains 15 chapters. It is a deuterocanonical book originally written in Greek that is part of the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and...
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  • Esdras is called 3 Esdras. In the Vulgate it is called 4 Esdras. In Greek Bibles, 4 Maccabees is found in the appendix. Eastern Orthodox churches include...
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    The Maccabees are an English indie rock band, formed in 2004 in London. They released four albums: Colour It In in 2007, followed by Wall of Arms in 2009...
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    also listed in the Deuterocanonical books in Wisdom of Solomon 8:7 and 4 Maccabees 1:18–19, and the Doctors Ambrose, Augustine, and Aquinas expounded their...
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  • included in the Catholic and Orthodox canons) 3 Maccabees (only included in the Orthodox canons) 4 Maccabees (Protestant, Catholic, and Eastern Orthodox Churches...
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  • of the Hellenistic period who listed the "great sages" of Israel) and 4 Maccabees (1st century). In the 1st century the historian Josephus said that the...
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  • a native of Alexandria. A date of c. 100–75 BCE is "very probable". 4 Maccabees was probably composed in the middle half of the 1st century CE, by a...
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    phrase "died for our sins" was derived from Isaiah, especially 53:4–11, and 4 Maccabees, especially 6:28–29. "Raised on the third day" is derived from Hosea...
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    surviving part of the Septuagint are 2 Esdras, Tobit, Judith, 1 and 4 Maccabees, Wisdom, and Sirach. The books of the New Testament are arranged in this...
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  • Meqabyan (redirect from Ethiopian Maccabees)
    transliterated as Makabian or Mäqabeyan), also referred to as Ethiopian Maccabees and Ethiopic Maccabees, are three books found only in the Ethiopian Orthodox Old Testament...
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    Prologue (1:1–2) Situation in Nineveh and Ecbatana (1:3–3:17) Tobias's journey (4:1–12:22) Tobit's song of praise and his death (13:1–14:2) Epilogue (14:3–15)...
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    this date. Jubilees could not have been written very long prior. Jubilees at 4:17–25 records that Enoch "saw in a vision what has happened and what will...
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  • contains similarities to the vocabulary in the Book of Daniel and II Maccabees, and it is presumed that the authors came either from Lower Egypt or Palestine...
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    characteristic topoi [i.e., acts], or two of them or three of them." 4 Maccabees Amor fati A Man in Full Jason Lewis Saunders. "Stoicism". Britannica...
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    Maccabean Revolt (Hebrew: מרד החשמונאים) was a Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and against Hellenistic influence on Jewish...
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  • Book of Ruth (redirect from Ruth 4)
    (3:16–18) Act 4: Resolution and Epilogue: Life and Fullness (4:1–22) Scene 1: Boaz with the men at the gate (4:1–12) Scene 2: A son is born to Ruth (4:13–17)...
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