1:23. The Septuagint became the OT of the ... The Codex Alexandrinus contains all of the Catholic OT Books plus III and IV Maccabees. These manuscripts show that the Septuagint with its larger ...

Be all of you subject to one another (1 Peter 5:5), having your conduct ... as Job and Tobit and Esther and Judith and the two books of Maccabees, and the two of Esdras . . . . Then there are ...

On Hanukkah, we celebrate the heroism of the Maccabees, the few who overcome the many. For example, according to the First Book of Maccabees, at the battle of Emmaus, 3,000 Jews defeated 5,000 ...

However, the story is told in the books of Maccabees. Key references are found in 1 Maccabees 4:36, 52–59 and in 2 Maccabees 1:18 and 10:5. The books of Maccabees were included in the Septuagint, the ...

This question, of the conflict between the power of a group (nation) and that of the individual belonging to it, has been much in the minds of many Israelis – and of Jews all over the world – for the ...

To equitably understand the diverse stances towards Jews of former President Jimmy Carter, whose centenary is celebrated on Oct. 1, a precedent ... in the Second Book of Maccabees about how ...

The Dalai Lama reminds us, “The very nature (of war) is one of tragedy and suffering.” This is true for both active combatants and civilians. The loss of one life is too many. This is certainly where ...

Firefighters were called to the home of W. J. Dodds, 607 Maple St., to extinguish a small fire which started in the basement after a torch was used to thaw pipe ...

PNB Housing Finance Ltd (PNBHFL), a retail focused home loan provider, is eyeing a retail home loan book of ₹1 lakh crore by March 2027, its Managing Director & CEO Girish Kousgi has said.

I’ve often described the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces as “modern-day Maccabees,” invoking the larger-than-life image of the Chanukah superheroes as a way to compliment today’s ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...