The names of the Holy Maccabees are Abim, Anthony ... surrendering their life for the sake of the observance of the divine Law. The first to die was their teacher Eleazar, then all the brethren in the ...

First Christ could have granted this particular ... Praying for the dead is quite biblical. In the Book of Maccabees found in the Catholic and Orthodox Old Testament, Judas Maccabees took a ...

What is the New King James Version of the Bible and how does it differ from others? Here is a brief explanation of several ...

He then quoted from the First Book of Maccabees: “It is not a foreign land we have taken nor have we seized the property of ...

The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus ... Jesus and the Church of the first four centuries, i.e., the 39 books of the Protestant Old ...

First, the premise of the movie ... the story of the Hanukkah rebellion. In the Book of Daniel, probably written during the wars of the Maccabees, in the 11th chapter, we find these words ...

Green Bay safety Xavier McKinney became the first NFL player since the 1970 merger to get an interception in his first five ...

The term “Judaism,” first referenced as Ioudaismos in the second book of Maccabees, is said to have signified acting in the manner of the Judeans. However, due to modern (mis)interpretations ...

Jewish 24-25 Simchat Torah Joyous festival in which the reading cycle of the Torah is completed and its first book begun again ... festival of lights that commemorates the victory of the Maccabees ...

Orlando Weeks began his latest UK tour at The Cluny on Tuesday night. The former Maccabees man journeyed through his solo ...

Now, the Y.U. Maccabees’ historic run is headed to the big screen, courtesy of Mayim Bialik, the Jewish actress and former “Jeopardy!” host. “The Maccabees,” a film by Bialik’s Sad ...