I & II Maccabees: Where the Story of Hanukkah Is Found

This is the full, uninterrupted audiobook of the story of I & II Maccabees - read with the passion and context this masterpiece deserves by 8-time #1 Amazon Best-Selling narrator, Steve Cook.Hanukkah (or Chanukah) is an annual Jewish celebration in the late Fall/early Winter that dates back to circa 164 BC (or the intertestamental period - between the Old and New Testaments) and was also referred to as "Festival of Lights" or "Feast of the Dedication" or "Feast of the Maccabees".The magnificent Hanukah story is found in the Apocrypha (meaning "hidden things"), in I & II Maccabees (1 Macc 4:36-59; 2 Macc 10:1-8). Although this is not one of the seven required feasts of the Mosaic law spelled out in Leviticus 23, this 8-day holiday celebrates the victory of the Maccabean war against Syria. This victory was considered a miracle since the Jews were out-numbered and out-provisioned in the natural, but God supernaturally brought them victory.Chag Sameach!