II. JASON, a Jew, a native of Cyrene, who wrote in five Books the History of the Persecutions, which the Jews suffered under Antiochus Epiphanes and Eupator. These five Books were abridged by a Jew, whose name we are not acquainted with. His work has been conveyed down to us, and is the second book of Maccabees; but that of Jason is lost. Both were written in Greek. It is believed, that the Abbreviator of Jason has added something at the end of the second book of Maccabees. We do not know exactly the Age either of Jason, or his Abbreviator.
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