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Historical Library · Deuterocanonical Literature
1 Maccabees 8
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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Anonymous. Artwork does not authenticate historical portraits or authorship.
· Greek
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Source edition: lxx-swete-1909
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1 Maccabees 8:4
Distant Conquests
An Alliance with Rome · 1 Maccabees 8
Story guide: Abandoned shields and an open stronghold introduce the reported conquests before porters carry tribute into a storehouse.
Open this scene in the reader →4And they gained control of the whole region by their counsel and by the sword—though the region was very far away from them—and of the kings who came against them from the end of the earth, until they crushed them and struck them with a great blow; and the rest give them tribute year by year.
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