5 Maccabees

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title: 5 Maccabees
text: The Fifth Book of the Maccabees, also called "Arabic 2 Maccabees", or "Arabic Maccabees", is an ancient Jewish work relating the history in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC. The book chronicles the events from Heliodorus' attempt to rob the Temple treasury in 186 BC to the death of Herod the Great's two sons about 6 BC. Unlike the other Books of the Maccabees, the book has no relation to the Maccabean Revolt. Rather, this work aims at consoling Jews in their sufferings and encouraging them to be ste
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description: Arabic text of Judean history 186-6 BCE
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date created: 2007-01-01T18:12:36Z
date modified: 2024-09-12T19:20:48Z
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