Category: 2nd Maccabees

Nicanor’s blasphemies
Judas lectures his men. His dream
The disposition of the combatants
The defeat and death of Nicanor
Compiler’s epilogue

VII: The Conflict with Nicanor, General of Demetrius I, The Day of Nicanor
Alcimus the high priest intervenes
Nicanor makes friends with Judas
Alcimus rekindles hostilities, and Nicanor threatens the temple
The Death of Razis

The campaign of Antiochus V and Lysias, Horrible death of Menelaus
The prayers and success of the Jews Near Modein
Antiochus V negotiates with the Jews

Incidents at Joppa and Jamnia
The Expedition in Gilead
The battle of Carnaim
The return by the way of Ephron and Scythopolis
The Campaign against Gorgias
The sacrifice for the fallen

The first campaign of Lysias
Lysias makes peace with the Jews. Four letters concerning the treaty

The Purification of the Temple
VI The Struggle of Judas against the Neighboring people and against Lysias, Minister of Antiochus V
Reign of Antiochus V: early years
Gorgias and the Idumaean fortress
Judas defeats Timotheus and captures Gezer

The last days of Antiochus Epiphanes
Antiochus writes to the Jews

V: The Victory of Judaism
The death of the persecutor and the purification of the Temple
Judas Maccabeus and the resistance
Campaign of Nicanor and Gorgias
The defeat of Timotheus and Bacchides
The flight and testimony of Nicanor

The martyrdom of the seven brothers

Gentile cults imposed
Coincidental significance of the persecution
The martyrdom of Eleazar

IV: Hellenistic Propaganda and persecution under Antiochus Ephiphanes
Misdeeds of Simon, Administrator of the Temple
Jason the high priest, Introduces Hellenism
Antiochus Epiphanes is praised in Jerusalem
Menelaus becomes high priest
The murder of Onias
Lysimachus killed in an insurrection
Menelaus buys his acquittal

III the Story of Helodorus
The arrival of Helodorus
Unease In Jerusalem
The Punishment of Helodorus
The conversion of Helodorus