Women in the Bible

Martyred Mother with Seven Sons

2 Maccabees 7:1-42; 4 Macc 1:8, 10; 8:3-4, 20; 10:2; 12:6-7; 13:19; 14:11-18:24

Articles

• "Hannah Mother of Seven" by Tal Ilan

• "The Faith of the Martyred Mother and Her Seven Sons" by Dr. Malka Z. Simkovich

• "Martyrdom in Maccabees" by Naomi Janowitz

• "Antiochus Epiphanes—The Bible’s Most Notoriously Forgotten Villain" by John Drummond

Books

• "Martyred Mother with Seven Sons" (p.390-392) by Toni Craven in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• "Martyred Mother with Seven Sons" (pp.403-405) by Toni Craven in Women in Scripture: A Dictionary of Named and Unnamed Women in the Hebrew Bible, the Apocryphal/Deuterocanonical Books, and the New Testament, edited by Carol Meyers (2001)

• "2 Maccabees" by Robin Darling Young in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe (1998)

• “The Martyr: A Synoptic View of the Mother and Her Seven Sons" by Robert Duran in Ideal Figures in Ancient Judaism: Profiles and Paradigms, edited by J. J. Collins and G. W. E. Nickelsburg (1980).

• "The Second Book of Maccabees" by Robert Doran in The New Interpreter's Bible, vol. 4 (1996)

• II Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary by Jonathan A. Goldstein (1983)

• "4 Maccabees" by Robin Darling Young in Women’s Bible Commentary, edited by Carol A. Newsom and Sharon H. Ringe (1998)

• "4 Maccabees" by H. Anderson in The Old Testament Pseudepigrapha, edited by James H. Charlesworth (1983)