2 Maccabees
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Maccabees is a Jewish work composed during the 2nd century BCE and
preserved by the Church. Written in Hellenistic Greek and told from a
Jewish-Hellenistic perspective, 2 Maccabees narrates and interprets the
ups and downs of events that took place in Jerusalem prior to and during
the Maccabean revolt: institutionalized Hellenization and the
foundation of Jerusalem as a polis; the persecution of Jews by Antiochus
Epiphanes, accompanied by famous martyrdoms; and the rebellion against
Seleucid rule by Judas Maccabaeus. 2 Maccabees is an important source
both for the events it describes and for the values and interests of the
Judaism of the Hellenistic diaspora that it reflects - which are often
quite different from those represented by its competitor, 1 Maccabees.
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