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2 Maccabees is a book of the Bible which focuses on the Jews' revolt against Antiochus and concludes with the
defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 BC
by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of
the work. 2 Maccabees is considered to be deuterocanonical/apocryphal.
In general, its chronology coheres with that of 1 Maccabees.
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