History of the Maccabees
Patmutiwn Makabayetswots (History of the Maccabees - Armenian)
Anonymous (Armenian tradition)
Armenian
Anonymous c. 2nd-1st century BCE · published 1901
46 pages
First Translation
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
While the Books of Maccabees are well-known in English via translations from the Greek Septuagint (e.g., KJV, RSV), the specific Armenian recension found in the Zohrab Bible (1805) has not been published in a complete English translation. Catalog searches for English versions of the Armenian text of Maccabees or works by Zohrabian yielded no results for a complete translation. This 1901 edition appears to be the first instance of this specific Armenian tradition being rendered into English.
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This text connects the final prayers of Tobit to the explosive military struggle of the Hasmonean revolt. Readers will encounter a brutal historical narrative that frames the Maccabean resistance as a necessary collision between pagan Hellenization and the immovable Law of Israel.
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