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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Around him, his Maccabees bandmates build the tumbling, spiky layers of ‘Marks To Prove It’, recreating the urgent magic that’s seen the title track of their 2015 album light up stages ...

That’s exactly what the Maccabees did. As the first flames of the Hanukkah menorah flicker tonight, we reflect on an ancient victory that carries profound meaning today. The Hanukkah story is ...

The Maccabees have sparked rumours of an appearance at Glastonbury Festival (Picture: Tom Pullen/REX/Shutterstock) The Maccabees have sparked Glastonbury reunion rumours eight years after their ...