James' Thoughts and Musings

III Maccabees is about the attempt by King Ptolemy IV Philopator in the late third century B.C.E. to obliterate the Jews of Egypt, and Go...

I was reading III Maccabees recently.  III Maccabees is about the attempt by King Ptolemy IV Philopator in the late third century B.C.E. ...

Source: John Sellars, Stoicism (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006) 108-109. "If I am doing my best to be a rational being...

I finished III Maccabees last night. III Maccabees is not actually about the Maccabees, for it relates to the persecution of the Jews under ...