Talk:2 Maccabees

message: There is obviously a problem with the date of writing given on this page - the wiki article for 1 Maccabees says ~100 bce and 2 Maccabees says ~124 bce!
The Oxford Annotated Bible (any edition) gives between 104 and 63 bce, which is much more likely, as it had to come after the 1st book. 
I have no idea how to edit pages, but if someone could fix this, it would be great.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.72.230.210 (talk) 02:57, 6 March 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: No, it didn't "have to come after the first book" -- 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees are fairly independent.  In any case, the exact dating is rather uncertain... AnonMoos (talk) 23:21, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

text: Actually, the article itself is inconsistent about dates because the opening section says "c 124 BC," while the Author section notes that the work claims to be an abridgement of a work by Jason, and that "Jason's work was apparently written sometime around 100 BC."  It would be hard for an abridged edition to have been written more than two decades earlier than the original work! --Eliyahu S Talk 20:52, 25 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: date of 2 maccabees

message: I have noticed a dating issue in this article.  (It appears, from what I see above, that the dating issue was brought up years ago, but has yet to be resolved.)First, the article claims that the work was written circa 124 B. C. E., but it also claims that the work is an abridgment of another, lost work that was written 24-years later, in 100 B. C. E.  So, obviously, that's not possible.  One, if not both, of those dates must be wrong.Then, the article claims that scholars who happen to be Jewish date the work from 50–1 B. C. E., and that scholars who happen to be Catholic date the work from around 120–101 B. C. E., while (A) providing no explanation for why scholars whose only distinguishing characteristic is their religions would happen to come to different conclusions regarding the composition's date of origin and (B) failing to tell us what date scholars regardless of religion give to the date of the composition's origin.  Further, no explanation is provided for why scholars and this article itself differ on the date of origin for this composition.allixpeeke (talk) 09:18, 3 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title: Dating the composition

message: During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!
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--JeffGBot (talk) 06:03, 19 June 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dead link 

message: Is Purgatory in this book?174.89.102.7 (talk) 04:15, 26 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Purgatory

message: Unless I am mistaken, the two items here should be moved here.Likewise, unless I am mistaken, the item here should be moved here.allixpeeke (talk) 07:46, 25 February 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Wikidata 

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message: I check pages listed in :Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting to try to fix reference errors. One of the things I do is look for content for orphaned references in wikilinked articles. I have found content for some of :2 Maccabees's orphans, the problem is that I found more than one version. I can't determine which (if any) is correct for this article, so I am asking for a sentient editor to look it over and copy the correct ref content into this article.
Reference named "Ehrman":
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From Pastoral epistles: 
I apologize if any of the above are effectively identical; I am just a simple computer program, so I can't determine whether minor differences are significant or not. AnomieBOT⚡ 09:17, 7 June 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Orphaned references in [[:2 Maccabees]]