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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.

"Dina d’malchuta dina (“the law of the land is the law”) requires Jews to obey the statutes of a legally constituted ...

There aren't many song sin the world about the sheer delicacy of becoming a father for the first time, but Orlando Weeks delivers perhaps the best.

The last of the prophets ceased at the beginning of the Second Temple. The Maccabees lived in the time of the Greek Empire, towards the end of the Second Temple, when prophecy had long ceased.

Then you and your family shall be numbered among the king’s friends, and you and your sons shall be honoured with silver, with gold, and with all manner of gifts” (1 Maccabees 2:17).

and it was reckoned to him for righteousness' (1 Maccabees 2:52)." St. Cyprian of Carthage, "Treatises" c. 248 A.D. "The whole canon of the Scriptures, however, in which we say that consideration ...

Hanukkah is a Jewish holiday celebrating the re-dedication of the second temple in Jerusalem ... The story behind the eight candles is that Maccabees only had enough oil to light the menorah ...

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 ...

The holiday commemorates the victory of the Maccabees, a group of Jewish freedom fighters, over the Syrian-Greek occupiers of Judea in the second century before the common era. The Maccabees ...

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Hanukkah is an eight-day holiday based on the events of the 2nd century B.C. Maccabean Revolt ... according to Chabad-Lubavitch. The ancient Maccabees “wanted us to know that no matter the ...