1:23. The Septuagint became the OT of the ... The Codex Alexandrinus contains all of the Catholic OT Books plus III and IV Maccabees. These manuscripts show that the Septuagint with its larger ...

Be all of you subject to one another (1 Peter 5:5), having your conduct ... as Job and Tobit and Esther and Judith and the two books of Maccabees, and the two of Esdras . . . . Then there are ...

On Hanukkah, we celebrate the heroism of the Maccabees, the few who overcome the many. For example, according to the First Book of Maccabees, at the battle of Emmaus, 3,000 Jews defeated 5,000 ...

However, the story is told in the books of Maccabees. Key references are found in 1 Maccabees 4:36, 52–59 and in 2 Maccabees 1:18 and 10:5. The books of Maccabees were included in the Septuagint, the ...

The Dalai Lama reminds us, “The very nature (of war) is one of tragedy and suffering.” This is true for both active combatants and civilians. The loss of one life is too many. This is certainly where ...

PNB Housing Finance Ltd (PNBHFL), a retail focused home loan provider, is eyeing a retail home loan book of ₹1 lakh crore by March 2027, its Managing Director & CEO Girish Kousgi has said.

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 ...

We are here today, in fact, the entire western world from the Americas to Europe, to Africa and the Mideast and even far east Asia, thanks to the vision and heroism of the Maccabee warriors of old ...

This year's Caldecott medal went to a book about an older sister frustrated when her baby brother "helps." The Newbery went to a middle-grade tale about a time traveler at the turn of the century.

As she battled a rare sarcoma cancer over the last two years of her life, Manheim Township resident Ginny McCreary struggled ...

Another year, another stack of great books to read. Jeffrey Brown talked with Maureen Corrigan, book critic for NPR’s Fresh Air, and Gilbert Cruz, editor of The New York Times Book Review ...