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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 ...
In 1 Maccabees, the only way for the Jews to honorably make a deal with the Seleucids involved first defeating them militarily and attaining functional independence. In 2 Maccabees, intended for an audience of Egyptian Jews who still lived under Greek rule, peaceful coexistence was possible, but misunderstandings or troublemakers forced the ...
Daniel 11:20–22 1 Maccabees 1:10 1 Maccabees 1:16–19 2 Maccabees 4:7 2 Maccabees 4:23–35: 169–167 Ante C. 170→168: The persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes. 169. (Ante C. 170) Antiochus returned in the year 143 (169 BCE). He went up against Israel, and entered the Temple. He murdered many. 1 Maccabees 1:20–24; Daniel 11:28. 168.
According to the narrative in 1 Maccabees, Jonathan Apphus was the youngest of the five sons of Mattathias. [citation needed] His father was a priest credited as the founding figure of the rebellion of the Maccabees against Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Seleucid Empire. However Mattathias died in 167 BCE while the rebellion was only beginning.
The depiction of Judas offering terms to the town of Ephron, but then burning it down and killing the male inhabitants after negotiations failed, fits with the author of 1 Maccabees showing Judas as the perfect Biblical warrior; this is a treatment that Deuteronomy 20:10–20 from Hebrew Scripture mandates for proper military behavior.
Gaul [18] (modern France). Only found within the deuterocanonical First Book of Maccabees which is found in the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox bibles. Girgashites [1] Gog (various times, mainly in the Prophets) [19] Greece [20]
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Although both 1 Maccabees and Josephus seem to describe the Acra as a new construction, this may not have been the case. Antiquities of the Jews 12:253 may be translated to give the sense that the "impious or wicked" had "remained" rather than "dwelt" in the citadel, which could be taken to mean that the Acra had been standing before the revolt ...