1 Maccabees. The First book of Maccabees. The Old Testament. Douay-Rheims Version. Part of the Bible according to the Catholic and Orthodox canons. LibriVox recording. Public domain. 1 Maccabees is best-known for containing the narrative behind the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah. It describes in detail the re-dedication of the Temple in Jerusalem and the lighting of the menorah. The 8 day rededication of the temple is described in 1 Maccabees 4;36-4;59 (listen from 0:30:53), though the name of the festival and the miracle of the lights do not appear here.

Listen:

0:00:18 Chapters 1-5
0:26:17 Chapter 4
0:44:54 Chapters 6-11
1:30:10 Chapters 11-12

Book:

1 Maccabees was written in Hebrew by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom by the Hasmonean dynasty about the latter part of the 2nd century BC. The original Hebrew is lost and the most important surviving version is the Greek translation contained in the Septuagint. The book is held as canonical scripture by Catholic, Orthodox, and Oriental Orthodox churches.

More on the book: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Mac...
More on Maccabees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macca...
Read the printed version: https://st-takla.org/pub_Deuterocanon...


Picture:

Painting Maccabees (oil on canvas, 1843, in public domain due to age) by Wojciech Korneli Slatter 1800-1875) a Polish Romantic painter of Swiss descent. Stattler went to France in 1843–44 with this painting, which won the Louis Philippe Gold Medal at the Paris Salon. Working on-and-off, it took him 12 years to complete it. Maccabees painting is currently on display at the National Museum in Cracow.

More:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojci...