Jason of Cyrene

Jason of Cyrene

Jason of Cyrene was a Hellenistic Jew who lived about 100 BCE and wrote a history of the times of the Maccabees down to the victory over Nicanor (175-161). This work is said [http://st-takla.org/pub_Deuterocanon/Deuterocanon-Apocrypha_El-Asfar_El-Kanoneya_El-Tanya__9-Second-of-Maccabees.html#Chapter%202 to have been in five books and formed the basis of the present] 2 Maccabees.

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"And all such things as have been comprised in five books by Jason of Cyrene, we have attempted to abridge in one book." 2 Maccabees 2:24
*1911


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