Miriam [Hannah) & Her Seven Sons Martyr*

Midrash Aggadah Exempla of the Rabbis, No. 57

Curated by The Jewish Mythology Team · Published January 17, 2025

Miriam [Hannah) & Her Seven Sons Martyr*.

II Bk. Maccabees, ch. VII.

IV Bk. Maccabees ch. VIII, ff. Ketubot, f. 64.

J. Ketubot, V, II. Gittin, f. 56 b.

Pesik. R. Rabati,XLIII. Tana debe Eliahu R. ch. 30.

Midr. Hagadol, Deut. Ki Tabo.

Lament. R. I §47—50; I, v. 16.

Josippon III, 5 § 2. Midr. Decalogue.

No. II, 3.

Midr. Ele Ezkera.

Ben Atar, No. 3.

Yalk. §938.

Jellinek, B. H. I, p. 70.

Heb.-Arab. Kissat.

*

Hanah.

197

Zunz, G. V.2 II, i. cf. p. 150 note a.

Graetz, Geschichte2 II, P- 317-

Ben Gorion II, p. 84, 341.

Origen, Exhort, ad Mart, ch. 22—27.

Cedrenus, vol. I, p. 223.

Malala, Chronograph,

VIII, p. 206.

Rampolla, Martyre et Sepulture des Mac- chabees.

Wace, Apocrypha, ad loc.

Cod. Br. M. 27 189, f. 26b.

Codd. G. 97 (Jerah- meel) f. 769; 185, No. 10; Homilies of Abraham, son of Maimoni- des, Gen. Vayesheb.

Themes

Patriarchs Women of the Bible Martyrdom Adam & Eve Chanukah

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