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Revisiting the Maccabee victory, first Hanukkah
; ...first Hanukkah in the year 165 B.C.E. from Maccabees, Chapter 10 (Revised Standard version...days with rejoicing, in the manner of the feast of booths, remembering how not long before, during the feast of booths, they had been wandering in...
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A History of Israelite Religion in the Old Testament Period. Volume I: From the Beginnings to the End of the Monarchy. Volume II: From the Exile to the Maccabees
; ...Israelite religion should be required to work through it in detail. Equally valuable is Albertz's comprehensive bibliography, a feast of secondary sources fit to satisfy any research craving. At the same time, this work is not for the timid. Many readers will...
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From feast, to fast, to feast
; ...such an illustrious feast, and were did it go? The First Book of Maccabees reports that not...the Second Book of Maccabees as a feast to celebrate this...decree in the Book of Maccabees II, announcing the Feast of Nicanor on Adar...
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Feast of Dedication.(The Home Forum)(Today's Article On Christian Science)
; HANUKKAH, OR THE Jewish Feast of Dedication, begins at sundown today...recounted in the Apocryphal book of First Maccabees. (The Apocrypha consists of books that...unfavorable circumstances. While the first Feast of Dedication took place over 2000 years...
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Feast for a festival Lindenhurst chef cooks up specialties for Hanukkah
; ...chef who enjoys research. He has been preparing the Hanukkah feast for Am Echod in Lindenhurst for 26 years. The dishes served...they are cooked in oil. Hanukkah celebrates the revolt of the Maccabees in 165 B.C. against the Syrian-Greek forces that had been...traditions. It's a labor of love." For the annual ...
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THUS BEGINS TRADITIONAL FEAST OF REDEDICATION
; ...the Jewish faith. It is an eight-day Feast of Rededication, also known as the Festival...ban their religion. But a group - the Maccabees - rebelled at the Syrian attempt to destroy...the rededication of the Temple by the Maccabees after their victory over the Syrians...
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FEAST OF LIGHTS
; ...smiling with anticipation Tuesday as his father, Daniel, passes him the first candle on the first night of Hanukkah, the eight-day Feast of Lights. An additional candle will be lit each night until the menorah is filled. The celebration commemorates the rededication...
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Reflections Today; Feast of the dedication.(Opinion & Editorial)
; ...Today The encounter between Jesus and the incredulous Jews takes place at the Jewish feast of the Hanukkah or Dedication (Jn 10:22). The feast marks the Maccabees' rededication or consecration of the altar and the temple that had been desecrated...
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Feast of the dedication; John 10:31-42.(Opinion & Editorial)
; ...Today Jesus encounters the stubborn Jewish leaders during the feast of the Hanukkah which is the yearly commemoration of the reconsecration of the altar of the Temple in Jerusalem by the victorious Maccabees. This altar was desecrated by the pagan king Antiochus IV Epiphanes...
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A FEAST OF LIGHTS BEGINS
; ...House of Greater Boston sponsored a menorah lighting on Boston Common. Chanukah celebrates the victory of the Jews, led by the Maccabees, over the Seleucid rulers. When the Jews tried to rededicate their temple, they discovered they only had enough oil to keep...
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