1 Then Yahuḏah Maqqaḇah, and those that were with him, went secretly into the towns and called their clans together, and took to them all who continued in the belief of the Yahuḏim and assembled about six thousand men. 2 And they called upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, that He would look upon Read more
1 About that time Antioḵos came out of the country of Paras with dishonor; 2 for he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temple and to hold the city; therefore the multitude running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight. And so Read more
1 Now with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 guiding them Maqqaḇah and his army recovered the Hĕyḵal and the city. 2 And they pulled down the altars and also the chapels which the gentiles had built in the open street. 3 And having cleansed the Hĕyḵal they made another altar, and striking flint they Read more
1 Not long after, Lusias the sovereign’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took great displeasure in that which was done. 2 And when he had gathered about eighty thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Yahuḏim, thinking to make the city a dwelling for the Read more
1 When these covenants were made, Lusias went to the sovereign, and the Yahuḏim were within their land. 2 But of the governors of several places, Timotheos and Apollonios the son of Genneus, also Hieronumos and Dĕmophon, and besides them, Nikanor the governor of Cyprus, would not allow them to Read more
1 In the hundred and forty-ninth year Yahuḏah was informed Antioḵos Eupator was approaching Yahuḏah with a great force 2 with Lusias his guardian and governor with him, each having a Yawanite force of a hundred and ten thousand footmen and five thousand three hundred horsemen and twenty-two elephants and Read more
1 After three years Yahuḏah was informed that Dĕmĕtrios the son of Seleukus, having entered by the harbor of Tripolis with a fleet of great strength, 2 had taken the country and killed Antioḵos, and Lusias his guardian. 3 Now a certain Elyaqim, who had been kohĕn ha’gadol, and had Read more
1 But Nikanor, hearing that Yahuḏah and his army were in the strongholds around Shomeron, resolved to attack them without any defense on the Shabbath day. 2 Nevertheless the Yahuḏim that were compelled to go with him said, “Do not destroy so cruelly and ruthlessly, but give honor to that Read more
1 These are the things written in his book concerning Yoḥanan of the Wilderness, which was brought to these shores by Aristolas and is no longer with us. The father of Yoḥanan was Zeḵaryah, son of Baraḵias; and he was a kohĕn at the Hĕyḵal, married to Elisheḇa from the Read more
1 When Yoḥanan had grown to manhood, he reappeared in the wilderness of Bethimra, proclaiming, “Change your ways, for you have fallen into error and ignorance. Return to the teachings of the Torah, interpreting them without guile, and turn your eyes towards the new light of the coming day. For Read more