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2 Maccabees 1:4 / Acts 16:14
2 Maccabees 1:7 / Wisdom of Solomon 12:3
2 Maccabees 1:19 / Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.17
2 Maccabees 1:21 / Sirach 49:13
2 Maccabees 1:29 / Exodus 15:17
2 Maccabees 1:36 / Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.17
2 Maccabees 2:2 / Letter of Jeremiah 1:4
2 Maccabees 2:5 / Revelation 2:17
2 Maccabees 2:5 / Revelation 11:19
2 Maccabees 2:5 / Tosefta Sotah 13:1
2 Maccabees 2:5 / Jeremiah 3:16
2 Maccabees 2:7 / Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.17
2 Maccabees 2:11 / Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 3.18
2 Maccabees 2:21 / Galatians 1:14
2 Maccabees 3:24 / Hebrews 12:9
2 Maccabees 3:24 / 1 Enoch 61:9
2 Maccabees 3:25 / Revelation 19:11
2 Maccabees 3:26 / Luke 24:4
2 Maccabees 4:13 / Josephus Antiquities of the Jews Book 12 5:1
2 Maccabees 5:2 / Josephus The Jewish War Book 6 5:3
2 Maccabees 5:19 / Mark 2:27
2 Maccabees 6:12 / Proverbs 13:24
2 Maccabees 6:14 / Daniel 8:23
2 Maccabees 6:14 / 1 Thessalonians 2:16
2 Maccabees 6:14 / Genesis 15:16
2 Maccabees 6:15 / Tobit 13:5
2 Maccabees 7:6 / Deuteronomy 32:36
2 Maccabees 7:9 / Daniel 12:2
2 Maccabees 7:20 / Ambrose On the Duty of the Clergy 1.203
2 Maccabees 7:22 / Psalm 139:13
2 Maccabees 7:22 / Ecclesiastes 11:5
2 Maccabees 7:23 / Hebrews 11:35
2 Maccabees 7:28 / Hilary of Poitiers On the Trinity 4.16
2 Maccabees 7:28 / Isaiah 51:6
2 Maccabees 8:3 / Deuteronomy 32:43
2 Maccabees 8:18 / Psalm 20:7
2 Maccabees 9:6 / Psalm 7:15
2 Maccabees 9:8 / Matthew 8:27
2 Maccabees 9:5 / Acts 12:23
2 Maccabees 9:9 / Isaiah 66:24
2 Maccabees 10:7 / John 12:13
2 Maccabees 10:7 / Revelation 7:9
2 Maccabees 10:26 / Exodus 23:22
2 Maccabees 11:6 / Tobit 5:22
2 Maccabees 11:8 / Revelation 19:11
2 Maccabees 11:27 / Judith 4:8
2 Maccabees 12:44 / 1 Corinthians 15:29
2 Maccabees 14:35 / Matthew 18:20
2 Maccabees 14:35 / Pirkei Avot 3:2
2 Maccabees 14:35 / Neofiti Exodus 25:8

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.