The Book in the order it was written
TimelineContentsSection VIII. Late Hellenistic to Early Roman · c. 100 BCE - 50 CE

3 Maccabees

7 chapters · 228 verses · 6,601 words

First century BCE, from Egypt. Despite the name, it concerns neither the Maccabees nor the Seleucids: Ptolemy IV, thwarted at the Jerusalem temple, orders the Jews of Egypt trampled by drunken elephants, and the plan collapses. Canonical in Orthodox Bibles.

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