2 Machabees: Boring Stuff

2 Machabees (Douay-Reims Bible)

2 Maccabees starts out like the last half 1 Maccabees -- with another boring letter. 1:1-15
Oh boy! More commentaries, speeches, letters, memoirs, and messages! 2:1-33
"Therefore when the holy city was inhabited with all peace, and the laws as yet were very well kept...." 3:1-15
Oh Jesus! Another boring letter. 9:18-27
After writing a boring letter to the Jews, Antiochus "died a miserable death" from his God-given bowel disease. 9:28
Four more boring letters! 11:16-38