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Date: 2014-07-09 16:20:42 Menelaus Maccabees Antiochus IV Epiphanes High Priest John Hyrcanus Jason Heliodorus pillar El Onias III Jewish history Seleucid Empire Old Testament		21-2Mc-NETS-4.qxd[removed]:31 PM Add to Reading List Source URL: ccat.sas.upenn.edu Download Document from Source Website File Size: 611,92 KB Share Document on Facebook

	Daniel chapter 8 versestells of the “Transgression of Desolation” that will come upon the Jews and the temple and the “2300 days” before the temple will be cleansed once again. This period of time is expla DocID: 1qTsY - View Document
	THE MACCABEES Mattathias the Hasmonean, sparked the revolt against the Seleucid (Grecian) Empire (specifically Antiochus IV Epiphanes) by refusing to worship the Greek gods. Mattathias killed a Hellenistic Jew who stepp DocID: 1qGGh - View Document
	Introduction The work entitled 2 Maccabees presents a host of challenges to conventional assumptions. First of all, the title itself is misleading. Second Maccabees is not a continuation of 1 Maccabees: its narrative DocID: 11r73 - View Document
	The First Prefixed Letter 1 1:1-9 1/ DocID: 1100m - View Document
	Contents 2 Maccabees Foreword Editor’s Note Preface DocID: 10XNT - View Document