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2 Maccabees 7:6
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Deuteronomy 32:36
2 Maccabees 7:9
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Daniel 12:2
2 Maccabees 7:20
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Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 1.203
2 Maccabees 7:22
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Psalm 139:13
2 Maccabees 7:22
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Ecclesiastes 11:5
2 Maccabees 7:23
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Hebrews 11:35
2 Maccabees 7:28
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Hilary of Poitiers On the Trinity 4.16
2 Maccabees 7:28
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Isaiah 51:6
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Summary
Date: 100-90 B.C.E.
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.
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