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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 ...
[6] [7] In the Ethiopian Bible, the prayer is found in 2 Chronicles. The earliest Greek text is the fifth-century Codex Alexandrinus. [3] A Hebrew manuscript of the prayer was found in Cairo Geniza. [8] It is considered apocryphal by Jews, Catholics and Protestants. It was placed at the end of 2 Chronicles in the late 4th-century Vulgate.
A popular Hanukkah song, "Light One Candle" features lyrics commemorating the war of national liberation fought by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Greek empire from 167 to 141 BCE. The war, and Maccabee victory, is described in the Books of the Maccabees and celebrated during the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. It's reflected in the opening lyrics:
The passage includes three main components. The first is the penitential prayer of Daniel's friend Azariah (called Abednego in Babylonian, according to Daniel 1:6–7) while the three youths were in the fiery furnace. The second component is a brief account of a radiant figure who met them in the furnace yet who was unburned.
The lyrics were written by Immanuel Shalev and David Block; Uri Westrich, a medical student and alumnus, made the video. [6] The song reached #1 on Billboard magazine's Comedy Digital Tracks chart in December 2010. [7] This song led to many more Hanukkah parody and cover music videos being made by Jewish music groups. [8] [9]
The traditional Jewish explanation is that Maccabee (Hebrew: מכבים Makkabi) is an acronym for the Torah verse that was the battle-cry of the Maccabees, "Mi kamocha ba'elim YHWH", "Who is like You among the heavenly powers, oh God!", [7] [8] as well as an acronym for "Matityahu haKohen ben Yochanan" (Matthias the priest, son of John).
Song of Songs 4 (abbreviated [where?] as Song 4) is the fourth chapter of the Song of Songs in the Hebrew Bible or the Old Testament of the Christian Bible. [1] [2] This book is one of the Five Megillot, a collection of short books, together with Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes and Esther, within the Ketuvim, the third and the last part of the Hebrew Bible. [3]
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.