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1 Maccabees


Alexander’s Flight to Heavens with Griffins, from Peter Comestor’s Historia Scholastica by Unknown artist, Austria
Alexander Summoning His Generals to His Deathbed and Dividing His Empire Among them, from the Bible of Borso d’Este (vol. 2) by Taddeo Crivelli
Alexander Killing Darius, from the Breviary of Pope Martin V by Unknown artist, Avignon

1 Maccabees 1:1–9 The Marvellous King the Bible Could not Ignore

Mattathias Opposing a Heathen Sacrifice by Zeev Raban
Judas Maccabeus, The Warrior by Jack Levine
Hanukkah lamp by Yihye Yemini

1 Maccabees 2 Reclaiming the Maccabees


Show all exhibitions from the Bible book Additions to the Book of Daniel: Bel and the Dragon
Show all exhibitions from the Bible book 2 Maccabees

More Exhibitions

General Resurrection from the Bamberg-Eichstätt Psalter by unknown German artist
Sarcophagus of Theodore by Unknown Italian artist
The Resurrection, Cookham by Stanley Spencer

1 Corinthians 15:35–58 Bodily Resurrection

Yellow Crucifixion by Marc Chagall
Christ appearing to Saint Peter on the Appian Way (Domine, Quo Vadis?) by Annibale Carracci
The Last Judgement by The Last Judgement

1 Peter 4:12–19 Finding Meaning in Suffering

The War in Heaven (pane 7g), part of The Great East Window of York Minster
Saint Michael and the Devil by Unknown Spanish Artist
The Fall of the Rebel Angels by Pieter Bruegel the Elder

Revelation 12:7–12 War in Heaven

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