Timeline for Were the Books of Maccabees found in the Dead Sea Scrolls?
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| Dec 21, 2011 at 1:30 | comment | added | Alex | Your last sentence certainly makes sense, but AFAIK the next three "books of Maccabees" were also written early enough that the Dead Sea folks could have known about them. (And you'd think that the third and fourth ones, at least - which really have little or nothing to do with the Chashmonaim and the story of Chanukah - might have appealed to them.) | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 23:22 | comment | added | Shmuel | (Not the best answer, I know. I'll add supporting sources later.) | |
| Dec 20, 2011 at 23:21 | history | answered | Shmuel | CC BY-SA 3.0 |