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Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Amos sits and reads from a book to a Jewish audience in a synagogue. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: A Jewish mother and her other sons look on as the Greek king has one of her sons mutilated and cooked on a fire. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Judas Maccabeus leads the Jewish army to victory in a battle against Apollonius and the gentiles. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: Mattathias slays the Jew who came to offer pagan sacrifices at Modein, and then he slays the royal messenger who came there to force obedience to the king's command to sacrifice. Also illustrates the description in 1 Macc 16 of Ptolemy's deceitful murder of Simon and his sons Mattathias and Judas. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: King Darius conducts the competition among his Jewish pages about wisdom. -
Contributing Institution: Pitts Theology Library Description: As the Jewish exiles to Babylon walk along the road with their baggage on their backs and on their pack animals, one can see the walls of Jerusalem in the distance and the scaffolding about its Temple. Also used to illustrate the return of Judas Maccabeus and his troops with their plunder from th...