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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 ...
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
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 ...
Jeremiah 29:1 (KJV) ... Further support for this terminus ad quem may be found in a possible reference to the letter in 2 Maccabees 2:1–3. [15] [16]
II Maccabees 5:2 152 "The Martyrdom of Eleazar the Scribe" II Maccabees 6:30 153 "The Courage of a Mother" II Maccabees 7:29 154 "The Punishment of Antiochus" II Maccabees 9:7, 9 155 "The Angel Is Sent to Deliver Israel" II Maccabees 11:8 156 "Judas Maccabeus before the Army of Nicanor" II Maccabees 15:21 157 "Baruch" Baruch 3:14 158 "Susanna ...
In the American Book of Common Prayer (1979) Baruch 5:1–9 is the Old Testament reading for Advent II (Year C); and in the Daily Office (Year 2) Baruch 4:21–29 is prescribed for Advent IV, and Baruch 4:36–5:9 for Dec. 24.
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 ...
Mattathias is mentioned in the story of the Maccabees, found in the deuterocanonical book of 1 Maccabees, in Josephus, and in Talmudic references (Shabbat 21b, Shabbat 23a – related to the candles). He is also made reference to in chapter 28 of 1 Meqabyan, a book considered canonical in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church.