in 167 B.C.E. and its immediate aftermath are remarkably accurate (11:21–39), the portrayal of the eventual demise of Antiochus in 11:40–45 is largely at odds with what one knows from other sources. The projected war between the Ptolemies and the Seleucids simply never occurred (11:40–43) and Antiochus did not die in Palestine (see 11:44–45) but in Persia. The conclusion that one should draw from the historical overview in 11:2–45 seems inevitable: that account must have been completed near the end