The Age of the Maccabees With Special Reference to the Religious Literature of
The Age of the Maccabees With Special Reference to the Religious Literature of
A W Annesley William Streane
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175 B. C. ) to the victory of Judas Maccabeus over Nicanor (1G0 B. C. ). It describes, often with much amplitude of detail, the persecution by Antiochus Epiphanes, the Maccabean struggles and successes, and the continuation of the contest to the time just mentioned. Sources of the Book. Besides the letters above referred to, a lost work by a certain Jason of Cyrene in five books furnished the writer, as he tells us himself (2. 23), with the materials which he has thus abridged. Traces have been... found of the fivefold division of the original in the shape of a phrase seeming each time to mark the close of a section of the narrative (3. 40 ; 7. 42 ; 10. 9 ; 13. 2G ; 15. 37). It has been conjectured that Jason is to be * Both books of Maccabees are absent from the Vatican MS. (B). The 2nd book also lacking in the Codex Sinaiticus. HISTORICAL OR QUASI-HISTORICAL BOOKS. 153 identified with the son of Eleazar, mentioned (1 Mace. 8. 17) as sent to Rome on a mission by Jndas, after he had overthrown and slain Nicanor.
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