The Jewish festival of Hannukah, which this year runs from 25 December to 2 January, actually has a lot in common with the ...

1 Maccabees is one of the deuterocanonical books of the Bible. 2 Macc is not a sequel to 1 Macc. In fact, 2 Macc tells many of the same stories from a slightly different perspective than 1 Macc.