2nd-century BC books

book of the Bible

Jewish wisdom text from the early 2nd century BCE, part of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox biblican canons

deuterocanonical, apocryphal story about Tobit & Anna and their son Tobias and his adventures with Raphael

historical book detailing the Maccabean Revolt, found in Catholic and Orthodox Bibles

Deuterocanonical book on the Maccabean Revolt

deuterocanonical book of the Bible in some Christian traditions

ancient Jewish apocalyptic religious text, part of the canon of the Ethiopian-Orthodox Church

ancient Jewish religious work of 50 chapters

ancient Greek version of the biblical Book of Ezra as preserved in the Septuagint

work of 15 verses, ostensibly the penitential prayer of king Manasseh of Judah; written in Greek, in the 1st or 2nd century BCE; part of some versions of the Orthodox deuterocanon

18 Jewish psalms compiled in the 1st century BCE that appear in some copies of the Septuagint and the Peshitta

Samaritan version of the first five Biblical books

The Huainanzi is an ancient philosophical and governmental Chinese text made up of essays from scholarly debates held at the court of Liu An, Prince of Huainan, before 139 BCE. Compiled as a compendium for an enlightened sovereign and his court, the work attempts to define the conditions for a perfect socio-political order, derived mainly from a perfect (or enlightened) ruler. With a notable Zhuangzi 'Taoist' influence, alongside Chinese folk theories of yin and yang and Wu Xing, the Huainanzi draws on Taoist, Legalist, Confucian, and Mohist concepts. But it subverts the latter three in favor

chapter 14 of the Book of Daniel in the Septuagint

pseudepigraphal Hellenistic work of the 2nd century BCE

passage that appears after Daniel 3:23 in the Septuagint, but not in the Masoretic; considered canonical by Catholics and the Eastern Churches, but not by Protestants; contains a penitential prayer and hymn of praise by the 3 children in the furnace

character in the deuterocanonical additions to the Book of Daniel (for the section of the additions to Daniel, use Q35555488)

Chinese mathematical treatise written between 202 BC and 186 BC

one of the original seven Dead Sea Scrolls

undated work by Dong Zhongshu

The Shiben or Book of Origins (Chinese: 世本; pinyin: shìběn; ) was an early Chinese encyclopedia which recorded imperial genealogies from the mythical Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors down to the late Spring and Autumn period (771–476 BCE), explanations of the origin of clan names, and records of legendary and historical Chinese inventors. It was written during the 2nd century BC at the time of the Han dynasty. The work was lost in the 10th century, but partially reconstructed from quotations during the Qing dynasty.