The third Maccabean book is an Old Testament biblical book in Orthodoxy, which is absent from the Jewish Bible ( Tanakh ) and is not part of the Old Testament in Catholicism and Protestantism . In the Russian Orthodox Church refers to non-canonical books.
| The Third Book of the Maccabees | |
|---|---|
| Original language | ancient greek |
| Genre | Historical books |
| Previous (Orthodoxy) | Second Book Maccabean |
| The next | The Third Book of Ezra |
The book is written in ancient Greek and preserved in the Alexandrian Codex of the Septuagint . The time of writing the book, presumably, refers to the II century BC. [one]
It has nothing to do with the first two Maccabean books, as the events described in it belong to an earlier time (221–204 BC) and other terrain (Egypt) [2] . Consists of seven chapters. The writer of this book is unknown.
Contents
The text describes mainly the persecution of Palestinian Jews from the Egyptian king Ptolemy IV Philopathus and the exploits of the Jews.
Notes
Sources
- Maccabee Books - Article from the Bible Encyclopedia
- An intelligent Bible. Edition of the successors of A.P. Lopukhin, volume six, St. Petersburg, 1909, reprint Stockholm, 1990
- Alexander Men , Bibliological Dictionary, volume 2, A. Men Foundation, Moscow, 2002, ISBN 5-89831-020-7