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.

But having just read some passages from it, I would say that the period that most closely resembles our own is that described in 1 Maccabees 1-2. For those who are Protestant, you might not have ...

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They found the cave, and inside they found a thick liquid, which they spread on the altar on the 25 th of Kislev, hundreds of years before the Maccabees (2 Macc 1:18-36). As soon as the sun came ...

According to the historical Hebrew text 1 Maccabees, the ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes suppressed Jewish law and outlawed rites such as circumcision. He also instituted pagan rituals at the holy ...

You can find the colorful and bloody story in 1 Maccabees 1-4, a book included in Catholic Bibles but referred to by Protestants as part of the “Apocrypha.” If you don’t have a copy around ...

With many citations in the Hebrew Bible, it is also noted in 1 Maccabees under the Greek name of Azotus as having been purified by Judas and Jonathan from the idolatrous temple of Dagon.