2 Maccabees
I. Letters to Egypt and the Summarizer's Foreword (1:1-2:32)
A. A Letter to Alexandria for Hanukkah in 124 B.C. (1:1-9)
B. A Letter to Aristobulus Concerning Hanukkah (1:10-2:l8)
C. Foreword by the Summarizer of Jason's Work (2:19-32)
II. Under Seleucus IV Philopator (187-175 B.C.): Wonders in the Temple: The Case of Heliodorus (3:1-40)
III. Under Antiochus IV Epiphanes (175-164 B.C.): Desecration and Purification of the Temple (4:1-10:8)
A. The Wicked High Priests: Simon, Jason, Menelaus (4:1-5:27)
B. The Martyrology (6:1-7:42)
- The Persecution by Antiochus Epiphanes (6:1-17)
- Eleazar the Martyr (6:18-31)
- The Martyrdom of Seven Brothers and Their Mother (7:1-42)
C. Judas' Victories and Purification of the Temple (8:1-10:8)
- Judas Overcomes Nicanor and Gorgias (8:1-36)
- The Last Words and Death of Antiochus IV Epiphanes (9:1-29)
- The Purification of the Temple (lO:1-8)
IV. Under Antiochus V Eupator (164-162 B.C.) and Demetrius I Soter (161-150 B.C.): The Subsequent Campaigns of Judas Maccabaeus (10:9-15:36)
A. The Reign of Antiochus V Eupator (10:9-13:26)
- The Tragic Suicide of Ptolemy Macron (10:9-13)
- Judas Defeats Gorgias in Idumaea (10:14-23)
- Judas Defeats Timotheus at Gezer (10:24-38)
- Judas Defeats Lysias at Beth-Zur (11:1-38)
- Judas' Expeditions into the Surrounding Regions (12:1-45)
- Lysias Invades Judaea a Second Time (13:1-17)
- Antiochus V Eupator Negotiates with Judas (13:18-26)
B. The Reign of Demetrius I Soter (14:1-15:36)
- The Contrivances of Alcimus (14:1-14)
- The Intrigue: Judas, Nicanor, and Alcimus (14:15-46)
- Judas Defeats Nicanor (15:1-36)