The Places of 3 Maccabees
3 Maccabees names 10 places; Egypt, Jerusalem and Alexandria most often. 9 of them can be put on a map, 9 with confidence. They are read from the Septuagint in Brenton’s translation and each is matched to OpenBible.info or Pleiades, or left unlocated when neither knows where it stood.
- Located with confidence
- Location uncertain
- Mountain
Every place in 3 Maccabees
The most often named first. Each place is set where its source puts it, and nowhere else; a place no source locates is listed and not drawn.
| Place | References | Source | Confidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Egypt | 2:25, 3:12, 3:20, 4:18, 6:4, 7:1 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Jerusalem | 1:9, 3:16, 3:21 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Alexandria | 3:1, 3:21 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Babylon | 6:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Coele-Syria (Cœle-Syria) | 3:15 | Pleiades | Certain |
| Judea | 5:43 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Phoenicia (Phœnicia) | 3:15 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Ptolemais Rhodophoros (Ptolemais)Ptolemais 'Rose-bearing' is an Egyptian town; its location is not settled (not Acco, and not clearly Ptolemais Hormou or Euergetis), so no record is matched. | 7:17 | None | Not located |
| Raphia | 1:1 | Pleiades | Certain |
| Schedia | 4:11 | Pleiades | Certain |
Places from OpenBible.info’s Bible Geocoding Data, under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence, and from Pleiades, © the Pleiades contributors, under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence. Coastlines, lakes and rivers from Natural Earth; relief from SRTM and ETOPO1 elevation data by way of the AWS Terrain Tiles; all public domain. Scripture and the spellings of names from Brenton’s English translation of the Septuagint (1851), public domain.