The Places of 4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees names 7 places; Jerusalem, Asia and Assyria most often. 6 of them can be put on a map, 6 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 4 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jerusalem | 4:3, 4:22, 18:6 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Asia'Seleucus Nicanor, the king of Asia' is a royal title for the whole Seleucid realm, not a single place; OpenBible's Asia is the Roman province in western Anatolia. | 3:20 | None | Not located |
| Assyria | 13:9 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Cilicia | 4:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Egypt | 4:22 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Phoenicia (Phœnicia) | 4:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
| Syria | 4:2 | OpenBible.info | High |
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.