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