Jordaan, P.J.De Bruyn, J.J.2015-07-302015-07-302013Jordaan, P.J. & De Bruyn, J.J. 2013. Resepsie van 2 Makkabeërs 6:18-7:42 in 'n multi-kulturele Suid-Afrikaanse Protestantse gemeenskap. Journal for semitics = Tydskrif vir semitistiek. 22(2):290-302. [http://reference.sabinet.co.za.nwulib.nwu.ac.za/sa_epublication/semit]1013-8471http://hdl.handle.net/10394/14183A sample investigation into how a multi-cultural Protestant South African community received the martyr texts in 2 Maccabees 6:31-7:42 provided interesting results. Various threats to their Christian faith were identified. A deep spiritual need emerged to make sense of troubling circumstances. In an attempt to address these problems the martyr texts of 2 Maccabees 6:31-7:42 were seen to be suitable. The research in this paper was undertaken without any expectation that we would reach any specific results. The spiritual need among this specific sample of a Protestant community in South Africa shows that it may be the right time for a fresh approach to the corpus of apocryphal books.enArticle