Difference between revisions of "Books of the Maccabees"

Revision as of 03:48, October 14, 2008

The Books of the Maccabees are a series of books that are part of the Apocrypha.

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-The '''Books of the Maccabees''', according to [[Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897)]] "were originally five books of the Maccabees.  The first contains a history of the war of independence, commencing (B.C. 175) in a series of patriotic struggles against the tyranny of [[Antiochus Epiphanes]], and terminating B.C. 135.  It became part of the [[Vulgate]] Version of the [[Bible]], and was thus retained among the [[Apocrypha]].  The second gives a history of the Maccabees' struggle from B.C. 176 to B.C. 161.  Its object is to encourage and admonish the [[Jews]] to be faithful to the religion of their fathers.
+The '''Books of the Maccabees''' are a series of books that are part of the [[Apocrypha]].
-The third does not hold a place in the Apocrypha, but is read in the [[Greek Church]].  Its design is to comfort the Alexandrian Jews in their persecution.  Its writer was evidently an Alexandrian Jew.
-The fourth was found in the Library of Lyons, but was afterwards burned.  The fifth contains a history of the Jews from B.C. 184 to B.C. 86.  It is a compilation made by a Jew after the destruction of [[Jerusalem]], from ancient memoirs, to which he had access.<ref>http://www.ccel.org/ccel/easton/ebd2.html?term=Maccabees,%20Books%20of%20the</ref>
-==References==
-{{Reflist}}
+{{Stub}}
 [[Category:Books]]
 [[category:Abrahamic Religions]]