Wat (wie) is 3 Maccabees - definitie
3 Maccabees
![angel]]s (3 Macc 5); Dutch engraving c. 1700](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Twee engelen jagen de olifanten van Ptolemaeus Philopator weg, RP-P-OB-44.915.jpg?width=200 "angel]]s (3 Macc 5); Dutch engraving c. 1700")
3 Maccabees, also called the Third Book of Maccabees, is a book written in Koine Greek, likely in the 1st century BC in Roman Egypt. Despite the title, the book has nothing to do with the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees.
2 Maccabees
![''Vision of Judas Maccabee'', 1860 woodcut by [[Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schnorr von Carolsfeld Bibel in Bildern 1860 157.png?width=200 "''Vision of Judas Maccabee'', 1860 woodcut by [[Julius Schnorr von Karolsfeld]]")
DEUTEROCANONICAL BOOK ON THE MACCABEAN REVOLT
Second Maccabees; Second Book of Maccabees; II Maccabees; 2 Macc.; II Macc.; 2 Macc; Second Book of the Maccabees
2 Maccabees, also known as the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt against him.
Books of the Maccabees
GROUP OF ANCIENT HEBREW BOOKS
Books of Maccabees; The Books of the Maccabees; Maccabees (books of Bible); Books of Machabees; Machabees, The Books of; Maccabees, The Books of; Books Of Maccabees; Book of Maccabees
The Books of the Maccabees or Sefer HaMakabim (Book of the Maccabees) recount the history of the Maccabees, the leaders of the Jewish rebellion against the Seleucid dynasty.
