Jason of Cyrene (Greek: Ἰάσων ὁ Κυρηναῖος) was a Hellenistic Jew who lived around the middle of the second century BCE (fl. ~160–110 BCE?). He is the...

Cyrene, also sometimes anglicized as Kyrene, was an ancient Greek colony and Roman city near present-day Shahhat in northeastern Libya in North Africa...

Diyllus Duris of Samos Euphantus Eupolemus Hecataeus of Abdera Hegesander (historian) Hegesias of Magnesia Hippobotus Jason of Cyrene Leon of Pella Manetho...

Book of Nehemiah. "letters of the kings" referenced in 2 Maccabees 2:13 "five books by Jason of Cyrene" referenced in 2 Maccabees 2:23: the author of 2 Maccabees...

martyr Jason of Cyrene (circa 100 BCE), Jewish historian Jason of Nysa (circa 100 BCE), Stoic philosopher Jason of Pherae (died 370 BCE), King of Thessaly...

writings include those of Jason of Cyrene, Josephus, Philo, Demetrius the chronographer, Eupolemus, Pseudo-Eupolemus, Artapanus of Alexandria, Cleodemus...

work by Jason of Cyrene. This longer work is not preserved, and it is uncertain how much of the present text of 2 Maccabees is copied from Jason's work....

of all religions: Sulla (by a pagan source, Plutarch), Queen Pheretima of Cyrene (by a pagan source, Herodotus, but perhaps known to Jason of Cyrene)...

Simon of Cyrene (Hebrew: שמעון‎, Standard Hebrew Šimʿon, Tiberian Hebrew Šimʿôn; Greek: Σίμων Κυρηναῖος, Simōn Kyrēnaios) was the man compelled by the...

Maccabees is a revised and condensed version of a work by an otherwise unknown author called Jason of Cyrene, plus passages by the anonymous editor who...