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I Maccabees: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

“The Apocryphal book of I Maccabees is an inspirational thriller.” With the help of God, the aged priest Mattathias and his sons—Judas Maccabaeus, Jonathan, and Simon—dramatically lead the Jews of Judaea first to victory and then to freedom against the formidable successors of Alexander the Great. Their struggles begin in guerilla warfare, responding to the terrible persecutions decreed by King...

oil” as at Exod 30:22–29, 40:9, especially since the courts were not to be anointed. 49. It would appear that the vessels had not been replaced after Antiochus IV’s sack of the temple in 169. See I 1:21–22 and commentary, and cf. 2 Chron 29:19. 50–51. Cf. II 1:8, where there is no mention of incense. 50. kindled … nave. Cf. 2 Chron 4:20. 52. For the date, see above vss. 36–54; on the false date at II 10:3, see Introduction, pp. 82–83. The labor of the priests at the temple began before dawn; see
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