3 Maccabees
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book about persecution of the Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt
Key facts
- Genesis
- Bereshit
- Exodus
- Shemot
- Leviticus
- Wayiqra
- Numbers
- Bemidbar
- Deuteronomy
- Devarim
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Part of
- Books of the Maccabees
- Genre
- Jewish apocryphon
- Followed by
- 4 Maccabees
- Follows
- 2 Maccabees
- Narrative location
- Second Temple
- Image
- Twee engelen jagen de olifanten van Ptolemaeus Philopator weg, RP-P-OB-44.915.jpg
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- entry in abbreviations table
- 3 Maccabees
- language of work or name
- Koine Greek
- inception
- 0001-00-00
- title
- 3 Maccabees
- Commons category
- 3 Maccabees
- P8168
- Enrico Porro
- set in period
- 3rd century BC
- characters
- Eleazar
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Encyclopedic overview
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