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The deuterocanonical books, [a] meaning 'of, pertaining to, or constituting a second canon', [1] collectively known as the Deuterocanon (DC), [2] are certain books and passages considered to be canonical books of the Old Testament by the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Church, and the Church of the East.
The Roman Catholic Lectionary makes use of texts from 1 Maccabees 1 to 6, along with texts from 2 Maccabees 6 and 7, in the weekday readings for the 33rd week in Ordinary Time, in year 1 of the two-year cycle of readings, always in November, and as one of the options available for readings for the dedication of an altar and as one of the ...
The anagignoskomena are Tobit, Judith, Wisdom of Solomon, Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira (Sirach), Baruch, Letter of Jeremiah (in the Vulgate this is chapter 6 of Baruch), additions to Daniel (The Prayer of Azarias, Susanna and Bel and the Dragon), additions to Esther, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, 3 Maccabees, 1 Esdras, i.e. all of the Deuterocanonical ...
1 Maccabees introduces Mattathias and his sons in chapter 2: In those days Mattathias the son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, moved from Jerusalem and settled in Modein . He had five sons, John surnamed Gaddi , Simon called Thassi, Judas called Maccabeus, Eleazar called Avaran, and Jonathan called Apphus.
According to 1 Maccabees, Antiochus banned many traditional Jewish and Samaritan [15] religious practices: he made possession of the Torah a capital offense and burned the copies he could find; [25] [26] sabbaths and feasts were banned; circumcision was outlawed, and mothers who circumcised their babies were killed along with their families ...
1 Maccabees (between 146 and 129 BCE) [48] Judith (between 150 and 100 BCE) [49] 2 Maccabees (between 134 and 100 BCE) [50] 3 Maccabees (between 100 BCE and 70 CE) [51] Additions to Daniel and Additions to Esther [citation needed] Wisdom of Solomon (c. late 1st century BCE–mid 1st century CE) [40] Roman after 63 BCE
The anonymous author of 1 Maccabees was an educated Jew and a serious historian; a date around 100 BCE is most likely. [60] 2 Maccabees is a revised and condensed version of a work by an otherwise unknown author called Jason of Cyrene, plus passages by the anonymous editor who made the condensation (called "the Epitomist"). Jason most probably ...
Some readers of 2 Maccabees suggest that they can determine the "original" five parts that correspond to Jason's five volumes; the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia proposed the parts may be divided by verses 3:40, 7:42, 10:9, 13:26, and 15:37. [2] As the date of authorship of 2 Maccabees is unknown, so too is the date of Jason's work, other than that ...