Septuagint - 3rd Maccabees

by Scriptural Research Institute

★★★★★
4.5 (626)

US$1.50

15% OFF CODE: SAVE15

Description

3rd Maccabees happens earlier than 1st and 2nd Maccabees, set between 217 and 205 BC, and does not include Judas the Hammer (the Maccabee), or his brothers, which implies it is part of a larger collection of Maccabean texts, possibly Jason of Cyrene's now lost five-volume version of Maccabees. If it was part of Jason's version of Maccabees, then it was likely the second or third volume, as it is before Jason and his brothers enter the story, but its abrupt beginning indicates it was not the firs