The OT of the most ancient surviving Christian Bible manuscripts ... contains all the Books of the Catholic OT, except I and II Maccabees. The Codex Sinaiticus only lacks II Maccabees but ...

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 ...

But when the Maccabees returned to their ransacked temple ... In 175 B.C., King Antiochus – whose ancient kingdom was in present-day Israel – made it illegal for people who lived there ...

The name of the new brigade derives from the ancient Hashmonaim, who were also known as the Maccabees. They rebelled against the Greek occupiers of Israel during the Second Temple period and saved ...

Here is an ancient Roman road leading to Damascus and ... Over two thousand years later the descendants of the Maccabees once again stand watch. In the days of the Seleucid Empire, Israel existed ...

The birthday of God (even if you are a non-believer) in 1 CE is objectively speaking a much bigger deal than the re-dedication by the victorious Maccabees ... with the ancient temple and Winter ...

That image lends strength to Diaspora Jewry. In Israel, the Maccabees are an ancient symbol of that fighter. The “Jewish Olympics” are known as the Maccabiah Games. They could not be called ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books ... At the time of 1 Macc, the land of Israel was caught in the crossfire of the ancient Greek empires. 1 Macc begins with the death of Alexander ...

The holiday marks an ancient victory and a holy miracle — when just one days’ worth of oil left in the Second Temple, in Jerusalem, which had just been reclaimed by the Maccabees, lasted for eight ...

In enshrining the Maccabees as the sole heroes of Hanukkah, the largely secular early Zionists did not heed the warnings of the ancient sages who authored the Talmud. These rabbis downplayed the ...

The ancient Maccabees “wanted us to know that no matter the circumstances and against all odds, we can always make light. We always must make light,” said Chabad-Lubavitch of Harrisburg’s ...