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Definition of II Maccabees
1. Noun. An Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of II Maccabees
Literary usage of II Maccabees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1910)
"Willrich accepts Josephus' account on the ground that II Maccabees is a falsified
... It embraced the period 171- 161 BC, and is the basis of II Maccabees, ..."
2. The Fourth Book of Maccabees and Kindred Documents in Syriac by Robert Lubbock Bensly, William Emery Barnes (1895)
"1) is likely to be original, while in II Maccabees the author seems to be
suppressing an unwelcome fact THE AUTHORITIES FOR THE TEXT. ..."
3. The Infinitive in Polybius Compared with the Infinitive in Biblical Greek by Hamilton Ford Allen (1907)
"IN Genesis we find the usage s; in Genesis and Wisdom of Sirach, the usage// in
Wisdom of Sirach and II Maccabees, the usage p; in II Maccabees, ..."
4. Quests for Salvation in New Testament Times by Charles James Ritchey (1922)
"II Maccabees 1:27; 2:18; 7:37. 52. II Maccabees 14:15. 53. ... II Maccabees 7:29.
56. See Charles: Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament, vol. ..."
5. Hellenism by Norman De Mattos Bentwich (1920)
"14, and II Maccabees 49. 'Ben Sira 24. 3-6. * Daniel 3. 5, 1o. ... II Maccabees 6.
A remarkable example of religious syncretism of the time has recently ..."
6. The Use of the Infinitive in Polybius Compared with the Use of the by Hamilton Ford Allen (1907)
"IN Genesis we find the usage s; in Genesis and Wisdom of Sirach, the usage/; in
Wisdom of Sirach and II Maccabees, the usage p; in II Maccabees, ..."
7. Israel's Historical and Biographical Narratives: From the Establishment of by Charles Foster Kent (1905)
"External as well as internal evidence supports in general the order of events in
I Maccabees, and where it is contradicted by II Maccabees the error is in ..."
8. Biblical Introduction: Old Testament by William Henry Bennett (1899)
"17. ii. Maccabees. 5. Daniel, Song of the Three 18. iii. Maccabees. Children,
Bel and the Dragon, Susanna. 19. iv. Maccabees. 20. Manasseh, Prayer of. 6. ..."
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