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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 Kgs. 19:15, 2 Kgs. 8:8, 2 ... although the Greek version of the book of 1 Maccabees was one of ... a sage mentioned in Tobit 1:21–22 and in the Aramaic ...
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 son of Simon. 138.
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.
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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...