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3 Maccabees — persecution under Ptolemy

Alexandria · Egyptc. 1st c. BCEContext: Eastern Orthodox

A Greek deuterocanonical book of the Orthodox Old Testament, recounting the persecution of the Jews under Ptolemy IV Philopator. Accepted in the Eastern Orthodox canon though absent from the Jewish and Protestant Bibles.

Source citation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Maccabees