• 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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  • 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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    The Maccabees (/ˈmækəbiːz/), also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: מַכַּבִּים, Makkabbīm or מַקַבִּים, Maqabbīm; Latin: Machabaei or Maccabaei; Ancient Greek:...
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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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  • 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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    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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    information about Eleazar is the book 2 Maccabees, although a variant account of someone named Eleazar is found in 3 Maccabees. Those who were in charge of that...
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  • The Fifth Book of the Maccabees, also called "Arabic 2 Maccabees", or "Arabic Maccabees", is an ancient Jewish work relating the history in the 2nd and...
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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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    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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  • 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 Book of Esther...
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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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  • 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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    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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  • Ishmael the High Priest and The Elevation of Metatron, and abbreviated as 3 Enoch) is a Jewish apocryphal book. Modern scholars describe this book as...
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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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    following: 3 Maccabees 4 Maccabees Assumption of Moses Ethiopic Book of Enoch (1 Enoch) Slavonic Book of Enoch (2 Enoch) Hebrew Book of Enoch (3 Enoch) (also...
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  • London: Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 9780567658135. Dyer, Brian R. (2021). "3 Maccabees". In Oegema, Gerbern S. (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Apocrypha....
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  • same time period. Both 1 and 2 Maccabees suggest that Judas Maccabeus (c. 167 BC) likewise collected sacred books (3:42–50, 2:13–15, 15:6–9), indeed...
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    Hebrew protocanon. Moreover, with the exception of the first two books of Maccabees, the Orthodox Tewahedo canon also contains the entire Catholic deuterocanon...
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  • the Maccabees: 1 Maccabees (only included in the Catholic and Orthodox canons) 2 Maccabees (only included in the Catholic and Orthodox canons) 3 Maccabees...
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    neighbors of Lot, whom he loathed on account of their insolence." In 3 Maccabees 2:5, the high priest Simon says that God "consumed with fire and sulfur...
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    Bible: Text and commentary" Yale University Press, 2018, p. 929. 3 Maccabees 5:1–2 3 Maccabees 6:18–21 Stuart Munro-Hay (2003) "Abraha" in Siegbert Uhlig (ed...
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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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  • 1 Esdras (redirect from 3 Esdras)
    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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    ISSN 0393-6805. Charles (1902), pp. lxxvii–lxxxvi. "Jubilees 1:28 / Galatians 3:19". intertextual.bible. Falconer, Joshua (2019). "Familiar spirits in the...
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  • of Rome, and includes most, but not all, of the Septuagint (3 Ezra and 3 and 4 Maccabees are excluded); the Anglicans after the English Civil War adopted...
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    Nineveh and Ecbatana (1:33:17) Tobias's journey (4:1–12:22) Tobit's song of praise and his death (13:1–14:2) Epilogue (14:3–15) (Summarised from Benedikt...
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