CNN’s Laura Bernardini slowly labors throught the books of Maccabees, which focus on the years around 150-100 BC, when the Greeks ruled that part of the world.

Judas Maccabaeus, deliverer of the ... who took the plot and incidents from the first book of the Maccabees and Book XII. of Josephus's “Antiquities of the Jews.” ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. ... Judas Maccabeus, to take command of the military forces they have gathered (2:66).

Although George Frideric Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” has come to be associated with Chanukah, it actually never touches on the miracle that the holiday commemorates: that a single ...

The Maine Music Society Chorale and Orchestra will present a rendition of Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus” at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, and at 3 p.m. Sunday, March 31, at Gendron ...

Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish leader Judas Maccabeus. Born in the second century BC, Judas led his followers, the Maccabees, in a rebellion against the Seleucid ...

You’ll hear selections from Handel’s heroic Judas Maccabaeus oratorio on Sunday Baroque this week, starting at 7 a.m. on 91.1, 107.5 and our all classical stream and at 10 a.m. on 89.9. Tags ...

After Mattathias died, one of the sons, Judas Maccabeus, became rebel leader. We know him as Judah the Maccabee, a brilliant general who wanted nothing less than independence for his people.

One of peace, harmony and faith, the story of Judas Maccabees forms the basis for the Jewish Festival of Lights, Hanukkah, and is often defined as history's first war for religious freedom.

CNN’s Laura Bernardini slowly labors throught the books of Maccabees, which focus on the years around 150-100 BC, when the Greeks ruled that part of the world.