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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 7
The available numbered POB Greek working edition, retaining each record’s declared source edition and notes. Artwork interprets this book’s account. Appearance, clothing and staging are interpretive; material from 2 Maccabees is not imported.
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· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 7:17
No One to Bury Them
Broken Oaths and the Fall of Nicanor · 1 Maccabees 7
Story guide: Abandoned cloth and a worn sandal lie beside an empty path outside Jerusalem’s stone houses.
Open this scene in the reader →17They poured out the flesh of your holy ones and their blood around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them.
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