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2 Maccabees
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Deuterocanonical book on the Maccabean Revolt
# 2 Maccabees 2 Maccabees is a biblical book that tells the story of the Jewish Maccabean Revolt against Greek rule in the second century BCE, emphasizing religious faith and divine intervention. It matters because it provides an important historical and theological account of how Jewish people resisted oppression to preserve their religious practices and independence.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- religious text
- Part of
- Books of the Maccabees
- Followed by
- 3 Maccabees
- Follows
- 1 Maccabees
- Main subject
- Hanukkah
- Narrative location
- Palestine
- Image
- Manuscript of opening of 2 Maccabees Royal MS 1 D II.png
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- Commons category
- 2 Maccabees
- entry in abbreviations table
- 2 Maccabees
- language of work or name
- Biblical Greek
- publication date
- 0001-00-00
- title
- מכב״י
- Stack Exchange tag
- hermeneutics.stackexchange.com/tags/2-maccabees
- set in period
- 160s BC
- characters
- Jeremiah
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