jan 1, 100 BC - 2 Maccabees
Description:
The author of this work tells us that it is an abridgement of a longer work (now lost) by Jason of Cyrene, an otherwie unknown historian who probably worte in the mid-second century BCE, within a decade of the last events described. This abridgement was likely produced shortly thereafter, around the time of 1 Maccabees. The work was composed in the literary Greek of it's time, comparable to Polybius's historical writings.The body of the work (chs. 4-15) deals with Judean history from the time of Antiochus IV (b. 216 BCE; r. 175-164 BCE) to Judas Maccabeaus's victory over Seleucid general Nicanor in 161 BCE. The events it details overlap with 1 Macc 1-7.
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Date:
jan 1, 100 BC
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~ 2127 years ago