The Second Book of the Maccabees

THE brethren, the Jews that are in Jerusalem and they that are in the country of Judaea, send greeting to the ...

It is also found in the records, that Jeremiah the prophet commanded them that were carried away to take of th...

Now about this time Antiochus made his second inroad into Egypt. And it so befell that throughout all the cit...

And not long after this the king sent forth an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws o...

But Judas, who is also called Maccabaeus, and they that were with him, making their way privily into the vill...

Now about that time it befell that Antiochus had returned in disorder from the region of Persia. For he had e...