Summary of 2 Maccabees (View)
Date: 100-90 B.C.E.
Description: The books 1 and 2 Maccabees are twin accounts of the Maccabean/Hasmonean revolt against the Greeks. 2 Maccabees is an evocation of Jewish identity in a turbulent world - scholars suggest many goals of the text, but “Jewish identity” is central. 2 Maccabees is not a sequel to 1 Maccabees - the two texts treat the same events in very different ways. The author of 2 Maccabees was probably unaware of 1 Maccabees, and indeed may have written his volume earlier.
Wills, Lawrence M. Introduction to the Apocrypha: Jewish Books in Christian Bibles, Yale University Press, 2021
Pseudepigrapha
Targum
New Testament
- 2 Maccabees 1:4 - Acts 16:14
- 2 Maccabees 2:5 - Revelation 2:17
- 2 Maccabees 2:5 - Revelation 11:19
- 2 Maccabees 3:24 - Hebrews 12:9
- 2 Maccabees 3:25 - Revelation 19:11
- 2 Maccabees 3:26 - Luke 24:4
- 2 Maccabees 5:19 - Mark 2:27
- 2 Maccabees 7:23 - Hebrews 11:35
- 2 Maccabees 9:8 - Matthew 8:27
- 2 Maccabees 9:9 - Acts 12:23
- 2 Maccabees 10:7 - John 12:13
- 2 Maccabees 10:7 - Revelation 7:9
- 2 Maccabees 11:8 - Revelation 19:11
- 2 Maccabees 12:44 - 1 Corinthians 15:29
- 2 Maccabees 14:35 - Matthew 18:20