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Standing Firm in Faith: The Meaning of 1 Maccabees for Today
Rediscovering Courage and Conviction in a Compromised World The Book of 1 Maccabees is one of the most stirring accounts in the Deuterocanonical writings. Set in the second century BCE, it tells the story of the Jewish revolt against the Seleucid Empire, which sought to erase Jewish identity and suppress worship of the one true…