2 Maccabees

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Hellenistic Jewish literature Jewish historical work biblical book deuterocanonical book religious text

2 Maccabees is a Jewish historical and religious work recounting the Maccabean revolt and associated martyrdoms, recognized as deuterocanonical in some Christian traditions.

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Second Book of Maccabees	3

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Hellenistic Jewish literature ⓘ Jewish historical work ⓘ biblical book ⓘ deuterocanonical book ⓘ religious text ⓘ
apocryphalFor	most Protestant traditions ⓘ
associatedWithFeast	Hanukkah ⓘ
basedOn	five-volume history by Jason of Cyrene ⓘ
canonicalIn	Eastern Orthodox Christianity ⓘ surface form: Eastern Orthodox Church Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church ⓘ Oriental Orthodoxy ⓘ surface form: Oriental Orthodox Churches Roman Catholicism ⓘ surface form: Roman Catholic Church
canonStatus	deuterocanonical ⓘ
containsStoryOf	martyrdom of Eleazar ⓘ martyrdom of the seven brothers and their mother ⓘ purification of the Temple ⓘ
coversEvents	Maccabean Revolt ⓘ surface form: Jewish revolt against Seleucid Empire
coversPeriod	2nd century BCE ⓘ
emphasizes	divine justice ⓘ faithfulness to the Torah ⓘ intercession of the living for the dead ⓘ martyrdom as witness to faith ⓘ prayer and fasting ⓘ resurrection of the dead ⓘ
focusesOn	martyrdom of Jewish faithful ⓘ persecution under Antiochus IV Epiphanes ⓘ rededication of the Jerusalem Temple ⓘ
genre	historical narrative ⓘ martyrdom literature ⓘ
keyFigure	Antiochus IV Epiphanes ⓘ Maccabees ⓘ surface form: Judas Maccabeus
keyTheme	God’s sovereignty over history ⓘ divine retribution and reward ⓘ martyrdom and hope of resurrection ⓘ sanctity of the Temple ⓘ
language	Koine Greek ⓘ
notASimpleSequelTo	1 Maccabees ⓘ
numberOfChapters	15 ⓘ
partOf	Septuagint ⓘ
politicalContext	Seleucid Empire ⓘ
relatedWork	1 Maccabees ⓘ
religiousTradition	Christianity ⓘ Judaism ⓘ
setting	Jerusalem ⓘ Judea ⓘ
sourceFor	history of the Maccabean period ⓘ
structure	preface and historical narrative ⓘ
subject	Maccabean Revolt ⓘ
title	2 Maccabees self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Second Book of Maccabees

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