3 Maccabees

book about persecution of the Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt
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3 Maccabees
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3 Maccabees

Summary

3 Maccabees is a literary work[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (281 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • 3 Maccabees's instance of is recorded as literary work[3].
  • 3 Maccabees's genre is Jewish apocryphon[4].
  • 3 Maccabees followed 2 Maccabees[5].
  • 3 Maccabees was followed by 4 Maccabees[6].
  • 3 Maccabees is part of deuterocanonical books[7].
  • 3 Maccabees is part of Books of the Maccabees[8].
  • 3 Maccabees's Commons category is recorded as 3 Maccabees[9].
  • 3 Maccabees's language of work or name is recorded as Koine Greek[10].
  • 1 BC marks the founding of 3 Maccabees[11].
  • 3 Maccabees's characters is recorded as Ptolemy IV Philopator[12].
  • 3 Maccabees's characters is recorded as Antiochus III the Great[13].
  • 3 Maccabees's characters is recorded as Eleazar[14].
  • 3 Maccabees's has edition or translation is recorded as Das dritte Buch der Makkabäer[15].
  • 3 Maccabees's has edition or translation is recorded as Q116772447[16].
  • 3 Maccabees's has edition or translation is recorded as Q118892183[17].
  • 3 Maccabees's narrative location is recorded as Alexandria[18].
  • 3 Maccabees's narrative location is recorded as Second Temple[19].
  • 3 Maccabees's topic's main category is recorded as Category:3 Maccabees[20].
  • 3 Maccabees's title is recorded as {'lang': 'de', 'text': '3. Buch der Makkabäer'}[21].
  • 3 Maccabees's title is recorded as {'lang': 'grc', 'text': 'ΜΑΚΚΑΒΑΙΩΝ Γ'}[22].
  • 3 Maccabees's title is recorded as {'lang': 'la', 'text': 'Machabaeorum III'}[23].
  • 3 Maccabees's title is recorded as {'lang': 'he', 'text': 'מכב״י'}[24].
  • 3 Maccabees's title is recorded as {'lang': 'en', 'text': '3 Maccabees'}[25].
  • 3 Maccabees's set in period is recorded as 3rd century BC[26].
  • 3 Maccabees's entry in abbreviations table is recorded as 3 Maccabees[27].

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Prose[28]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 51837be5-1ab2-47be-a37b-01026dff9204[29]

Body

Publication

3 Maccabees's language of work or name is recorded as Koine Greek[10]. Its genre is Jewish apocryphon[4]. Part of include deuterocanonical books[7], a religious text[30] and Books of the Maccabees[8], a group of literary works[31].

Adaptations and Inspiration

3 Maccabees followed 2 Maccabees[5]. It was followed by 4 Maccabees[6].

Why It Matters

3 Maccabees ranks in the top 4% of literary_work entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (281 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 21 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 7 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
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  19. [21] . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Q116199356. wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . perseus.tufts.edu. perseus.tufts.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [30] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [31] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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