For those who are Protestant, you might not have heard of these books. (Then again, if you’re Catholic, the same may sadly be true.) At best your Bible contains 1 and 2 Maccabees as “apocrypha”.

2 Maccabees 7:29 Do not fear this butcher, but prove worthy of your brothers. Accept death, so that in God's mercy I may get you back again with your brothers.

For 2 Maccabees, in contrast, Jews suffer because their sins caused God “to hide His face” (see Deuteronomy 31:17 and 32:20, paraphrased in 2 Maccabees 5:17, i.e., to suspend his providence.

Solomonia/Shmuni was murdered according to 2 Maccabees ch. 8, with other related accounts in the fourth Book of Maccabees. This means that the Greek attack on the Jews was idolatrous and intended ...

Fans of The Maccabees have responded online to the news that the group are set to split after 14 years as a band.. In a statement posted to social media earlier on Monday (August 8), the band said ...

It’s another March Madness run for the Yeshiva University Maccabees, which clinched the Skyline Conference championship on March 2 to head to the national men’s basketball tournament.

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. 1 ...

In reality, the clashes between the Maccabees and the Greeks lasted 27 years of an extremely bloody and cruel war. We will need less, be"H. Israel National News ...

From Maccabees to modern miracles. For this year’s Festival of Lights, Friends of the Israel Defense Forces ... Around the world, the average country spends 2% of its GDP on its military.