Who knew, for example, that according to the second Book of Maccabees ... and built a new altar like the former one. …” (1 Maccabees 4:42-45) The people of Occupy L.A., a self-described ...

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.

For those who are Protestant, you might not have heard of these books. (Then again, if you’re Catholic, the same may sadly be true.) At best your Bible contains 1 and 2 Maccabees as “apocrypha”.

In fact, while the First Book of Maccabees portrays theRevolt as a righteous uprising against an oppressive foreign power,the Second Book of Maccabees (by another author) presents it as abattle of ...

The First and Second Books of Maccabees (the first originally written ... And now for our three theories: 1) Macabré is a corruption of “Maccabee” and refers to the seven brothers who went ...

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In case of abuse, Report this post. The story of the Hasmonean (or “Maccabean”) revolt is preserved in 1 and 2 Maccabees, two very different books in style, content, views and values.

Their story is detailed in two ancient texts, Maccabees 1 and Maccabees 2 . Here’s a fun twist: these books didn’t make the cut into the Hebrew Bible but found a home in the Catholic Old ...

But the Maccabees’ books have nothing to say about a miracle ... hundreds of years before the Maccabees (2 Macc 1:18-36). As soon as the sun came out, the liquid ignited. That was the miracle ...