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SCRIPTURE TIMELINE INFOGRAPHIC

2 Maccabees

DATE WRITTRN

It was likely written some time


between 150 and 120 BC

POSSIBLE
AUTHORS

originally written in Koine Greek


by an unknown diaspora Jew
living in Hellenistic Egypt.

SIGNIFICA
NT
HISTORICA
L EVENT

included in the Septuagint, a


prominent Greek collection of TO WHOM IS
Jewish scripture
THE
SCRIPTURE
INTENDED

Wtitten for the Maccabean Revolt.

IDENTIFY
TWO BOOKS
OF THE
BIBLE

"2 Maccabees 10:1–8: Who


Wrote It and Where Does It
Belong?" Journal of Biblical
Literature 136, no. 1: 117–
30.

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