A Handbook on 3-4 Maccabees (UBS Handbooks)
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Overview
The book known as 3 Maccabees, which was written and preserved in Greek, has nothing to do with the family of the Maccabees, whose story is told in 1-2 Maccabees. This story takes place about fifty years before the incidents in the history of the Maccabean family. Yet the theme of the book is very much like 2 Maccabees, and probably because of its similarity to this book it was placed in manuscripts directly after 2 Maccabees.
This book is not considered canonical scripture by Protestants or Roman Catholics, but it does have deuterocanonical status in the Orthodox Churches. Protestant practice is to group it among a large group of ancient non-canonical writings known as pseudepigrapha.
- Shows deuterocanonical status in the Orthodox Churches.
- Exposes fifty years before the incidents in the history of the Maccabean family.
- Shows how Scholars disagree about the date of the book.
- Title: A Handbook on 3-4 Maccabees (UBS Handbooks)
- Authors: Roger A. Bullard, Howard A. Hatton
- Series: UBS Handbooks
- Publisher: American Bible Society
- Pages: 534
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Resource ID: LLS:UBSHBK501MA
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2023-12-18T23:19:01Z