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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 ...
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 ...
5 Maccabees, an Arabic text which offers an account of the history of the Maccabees from 186 BC to 6 BC. The same title is occasionally ascribed to a Syriac version of the 6th book of Josephus' The Jewish War. [2] [3] 6 Maccabees, a Syriac poem that possibly shared a lost source with 4 Maccabees. [3] 7 Maccabees, a Syriac text which contains ...
Nicanor's military governance of Judea, the Battle of Caphar-salama, and the Battle of Adasa are recorded in the book of 1 Maccabees (1 Maccabees 7:26–50), the book of 2 Maccabees (2 Maccabees 14:12–33, 2 Maccabees 15:1–36), and in Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews Book 12, Chapter 10. The Battle of Caphar-salama is portrayed with fairly ...
It is the first battle discussed in the book of 1 Maccabees, hence generally being dated to 167–166 BCE. The precise details of the battle are not known either, but 2 Maccabees writes that the rebels fought using guerrilla warfare in the early stage of the revolt, by "coming unexpectedly" on their foes and at night. It is reasonably possible ...
1 Maccabees 9:54–56 1 Maccabees 10:1–21 1 Maccabees 10:55–62 1 Maccabees 10:67–85 1 Maccabees 11:14–19 1 Maccabees 12:39–48 1 Maccabees 13:41–42 1 Maccabees 13:51–53 1 Maccabees 14:1–4 1 Maccabees 14:47 2 Maccabees 1:7–8: 138–104 Ante C. 139→124: The 5th year of Simon the great high priest to the death of John Hyrcanus ...
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Pretended to be a son of Antiochus Epiphanes, as he is also described in 1 Maccabees. [81] Mentioned in Polybius' Histories. [82] 1 Macc. 10:1, 1 Macc. 11:1: Alexander the Great: King of Macedon: 336–323: Referred to by Athenian orator Aeschines, [83] [84] and identified on his coins. [85] 1 Macc. 1:1, 1 Macc. 6:2 1 Macc. 1:10† Antiochus ...