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JASON OF CYRENE
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JASON OF CYRENE, a Hellenistic Jew, who lived about 100 B.C. and wrote a history of the times of the Maccabees down to the victory over Nicanor (175–161 B.c.). This work is said to have been in five books and formed the basis of the present 2 Macc. (see ch. ii. 19–32).