Jason of Cyrene

Jason of Cyrene was a Hellenistic Jew who lived about 100 BC and wrote a history of the times of the Maccabees down to the victory over Nicanor (175-161). This work is said to have been in five books and formed the basis of the present 2 Maccabees .

Jason of Cyrene ( ) was a Hellenistic Jew who lived about 100 BC and wrote a history of the times of the Maccabees down to the victory over Nicanor (175-161 BC). This work is said to have been in five books and formed the basis of the present 2 Maccabees . See 2 Maccabees 2 :19-32., especially: “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 The original work is lost, and known only in the epitome made by the author of 2 Maccabees. The author of 2 Maccabees has confessedly exercised much freedom. Not only was Jason's work abridged, but also added to, and probably altered. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed.

Jason of Cyrene ( ) was a Hellenistic Jew who lived about 100 BC and wrote a history of the times of the Maccabees down to the victory over Nicanor (175-161 BC). This work is said to have been in five books and formed the basis of the present 2 Maccabees . See 2 Maccabees 2 :19-32., especially: “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 2:23 The original work is lost, and known only in the epitome made by the author of 2 Maccabees. The author of 2 Maccabees has confessedly exercised much freedom. Not only was Jason's work abridged, but also added to, and probably altered. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed.

Hellenistic Jewish historian (fl. 2nd century BCE) Jason of Cyrene ( ) was a Hellenistic Jew who lived around the middle of the second century BCE ( fl. ~160–110 BCE?). He is the author of a five-volume history of the Maccabean Revolt and its preceding events (~178–160 BCE), which subsequently became a lost work . His history was preserved indirectly in an abridgment by an unknown Egyptian Jew , the book of 2 Maccabees , which was eventually included in the Septuagint , the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures. 2 Maccabees was eventually recognized as a deuterocanonical book included in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian biblical canon .

Hellenistic Jewish historian (fl. 2nd century BCE) Jason of Cyrene ( Greek : Ἰάσων ὁ Κυρηναῖος ) was a Hellenistic Jew who lived around the middle of the second century BCE ( fl. ~160–110 BCE?). He is the author of a five-volume history of the Maccabean Revolt and its preceding events (~178–160 BCE), which subsequently became a lost work . His history was preserved indirectly in an abridgment by an unknown Egyptian Jew , the book of 2 Maccabees , which was eventually included in the Septuagint , the Greek version of the Jewish scriptures. 2 Maccabees was eventually recognized as a deuterocanonical book included in the Catholic and Orthodox Christian biblical canon .