Fifth book of Maccabees
59 chapters. Preserved only in Arabic, where it is usually called 2 Maccabees, but known as 5 Maccabees in scholarship.
- HMML ID
- 322023754083
- PURL
- LC access point
- Fifth book of Maccabees
- Library of Congress
- VIAF
Variants
- Arabic 2 Maccabees
- Arabic Maccabees
Work information
- Title
- 5 Maccabees
- Genres
Versions
- Expression
- Fifth book of Maccabees. Arabic
- Language
- Arabic
- Title
- 5 Maccabees
- Alternate titles
- كتاب الثاني المقابيين
- Kitāb al-thānī al-Maqābīyīn
- Incipit
- كان من رسوم ملوك اليونانيين أن ينفذوا إلى مدينة بيت المقدس في كل سنة مالا جزيلا
General notes
- Description
- 5 Maccabees; Fifth Book of the Maccabees; Jewish work relating history of the 2nd and 1st centuries BCE; survives in Arabic; "5 Maccabees" introduced as a title in 1832; also called Arabic 2 Maccabees and Arabic Maccabees
- Citations
- "5 Maccabees," Wikipedia, accessed November 16, 2021, https://perma.cc/4HYE-8475.
- Description
- Fifth book, possibly originally written in Hebrew then translated to Greek, now only exists in Arabic [Cotton claims Syriac too, but this seems to be a mistake]; presents like a chronicle of Jewish affairs, starting with Heliodorus and the treasury of Jerusalem, and continuing to Herod's murder of his wife and children; author is wholly unknown
- Citations
- Henry Cotton, The Five Books of Maccabbees in English (Oxford: The University Press, 1832), xxx-xxxv, https://ia800905.us.archive.org/6/items/fivebooksofmacca00cott/fivebooksofmacca00cott.pdf.
- Description
- كتاب الثاني المقابيين=Kitāb al-thānī al-Maqābīyīn
- Citations
- 22593, Hill Museum & Manuscript Library, accessed November 16, 2021, https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/528062.
Preferred citation
"Fifth book of Maccabees." HMML Authority File. Hill Museum & Manuscript Library. Last modified March 21, 2022. https://w3id.org/haf/work/322023754083
Change notes
- Date added
- 2021-11-16
- Last edited
- 2022-03-21
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