A lot happened in the 400-year intertestamental or “between testaments” period from the writings of the Book of Malachi to end the Old Testament and the Gospel of Matthew to begin the New ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees ... Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old Testament.

(RNS) — Hanukkah, which began Sunday, commemorates the heroic resistance of a group of Jewish rebels called the Maccabees to the Syrian Greek Emperor Antiochus IV in 167 B.C.E.

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc. 1 ...

Since the Christian Orthodox and Catholic Bible accepted the Deutero-Canonical Books written in Greek as the Books of Maccabees, the Church commemorates, on August 1st, the sacrifice of a woman ...

The Maccabees of Today. These days we can see many Maccabees. People,who similar to the Maccabees, ... Events that occur at a Biblical level of open miracles can still happen.

The Maccabees teach us to stand up for religious liberty.” Sis said another lesson to be learned from the story is to be aware of the ways in which the example of one’s actions affects others.

As we celebrate over Hanukkah’s eight days the valor of those who rose to resist villainy - in those days and in our time - we mark the words of Maccabees both ancient and modern.