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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 ...
Psalm 151 is cited once in the Extraordinary Form of the Roman Breviary as a responsory of the series from the books of Kings, the second in the Roman Breviary, together with 1 Samuel 17:37 (Greek 1–2 Kings is linked to the traditional 1–2 Samuel, and Greek 3–4 Kings to the traditional 1–2 Kings) in a text slightly different from that ...
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
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.
[75] 2 Maccabees also represents an attempt to take the cause of the Maccabees outside Judea, as it encourages Egyptian Jews and other diaspora Jews to celebrate the cleansing of the temple (Hanukkah) and revere Judas Maccabeus. [75] [69] In general, 2 Maccabees portrays the prospects of peace and cooperation more positively than 1 Maccabees ...
Memoirs of Nehemiah referenced in 2 Maccabees 2:13, [45] [39] which may be the same as the Book of Nehemiah. "letters of the kings" referenced in 2 Maccabees 2:13 [39] "five books by Jason of Cyrene" referenced in 2 Maccabees 2:23: [46] the author of 2 Maccabees here states that their work is abridged from the history by Jason.
[74] 2 Maccabees is found in the 5th century Codex Alexandrinus which includes all of 1, 2, 3, and 4 Maccabees, as well as the 8th century Codex Venetus. 2 Maccabees is missing from the Codex Vaticanus (which lacks any of the books of Maccabees) and the Codex Sinaiticus (which includes 1 and 4 Maccabees, but neither 2 nor 3 Maccabees). [75]
The book is named after Baruch ben Neriah, the prophet Jeremiah's scribe who is mentioned at Baruch 1:1, and has been presumed to be the author of the whole work. [2] The book is a reflection of a late Jewish writer on the circumstances of Jewish exiles from Babylon , with meditations on the theology and history of Israel , discussions of ...