Seleucid

The Codex Alexandrinus (5th century AD) is a vital Greek manuscript of the Bible that includes 1, 2, 3, and 4 Maccabees within its Septuagint Old Testament. Housed in the British Library, it is particularly significant as the oldest manuscript containing 3 Maccabees and 4 Maccabees. The manuscript includes four books of Maccabees as part of its Septuagint section. It serves as the primary witness to the text of 3 and 4 Maccabees. It is written in a large, square uncial hand and is a largely complete Bible. The text includes 3 Maccabees, which describes Ptolemy IV Philopator's, king of Egypt, attempt to persecute the Jews, which was not traditionally in the Hebrew canon but is essential to this early Greek collection.

The Five Books of Maccabees in English

A seminal 19th-century scholarly assembly of the five distinct books detailing the Maccabean revolt and subsequent Jewish history, translated into English with extensive notes by Henry Cotton.