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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Susan Weingarten (translation), Moshe Shmi'el Dascola and Unknown Author(s)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings, Ḥag haBanot (Eid el Benat)
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women, Judith, anti-predatory, dairy foods, soporifics, resistance, Megillat Yehudit, High Middle Ages, 14th century C.E., heroic women, חג הבנות Ḥag HaBanot, 52nd century A.M., derivative work
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This is a faithful transcription of the text of the medieval Megillat Yehudith (the Scroll of Judith), not to be confused with the deutero-canonical Book of Judith, authored in Antiquity. We have further set this text side-by-side with the English translation made by Susan Weingarten, and vocalized and cantillated the Hebrew so that it may be chanted. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Aramaic, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Yiddish translation, Hebrew translation, Maccabees, Megillat Antiokhus, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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The Megillat Antiochus was composed in Palestinian Aramaic sometime between the 2nd and 5th century CE, likely in the 2nd Century when the memory of the Bar Kochba revolt still simmered.. The scroll appears in a number of variations. The Aramaic text below follows the critical edition prepared by Menaḥem Tzvi Kaddari, and preserves his verse numbering. The English translation by Rabbi Joseph Adler (1936) follows the Hebrew translation in the middle column, the source of which is a medieval manuscript reprinted by Tzvi Filipowsky in 1851. Adler and Kaddari’s verse ordering loosely follows one another indicating variations in manuscripts. Where Aramaic is missing from Kaddari’s text, the Aramaic version from Adler’s work is included in parentheses. Adler also included a Yiddish translation which we hope will be fully transcribed (along with vocalized Hebrew text, a Hungarian translation, and perhaps even a Marathi translation from South India) for Ḥanukkah 5775 , G!d willing. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut) and Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Aramaic, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Maccabees, Megillat Antiokhus, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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This is a direct transcription, including cantillation and non-standard vocalizations, of the cantillated Megilat Antiokhos found in the British Library manuscript Or 5866, folios 105v-110r. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), John C. Reeves (translation), Menaḥem Tsvi Kaddari and Unknown Author(s)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Aramaic, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Maccabees, Megillat Antiokhus, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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The critical text of Megillat Antiokhus in its original Aramaic, prepared by Menaḥem Tsvi Kaddari and translated into English by John C. Reeves. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer (transcription & naqdanut), Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Tsvi Hirsch Filipowski (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Megillot, Ḥanukkah Readings
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English Translation, Bar Kochba Rebellion, Late Antiquity, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, Hebrew translation, Megillat Antiokhus, Seleucid Greek Occupation, Classical Antiquity, 40th century A.M., 2nd century C.E.
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Perhaps Megillat Antiokhus could be read a la Esther on Purim (the holiday with the most similarities), going to Eicha trope in the upsetting parts. A few notes: on the final mention of Bagris the Wicked I included a karnei-farah in the manner of the karnei-farah in Esther. I also included a merkha kefulah in the concluding section, which (according to David Weisberg’s “The Rare Accents of the Twenty-Eight Books”) represents aggadic midrash material. It also serves as a connection to the Chanukah haftarah, which is famously the only one that has a merkha kefulah. –Isaac Mayer . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Unknown Author(s) and Jason of Cyrene
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Second Temple Period, Megillot, Yom Niqanor Readings
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military, ארץ ישראל Erets Yisrael, 2nd century B.C.E., 37th century A.M.
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It is challenging to think of how to mark Nicanor Day, as it remains at a disadvantage, not only on years when it conflicts with Ta’anit Esther but on all years since it has no mitzvot. This is probably the main reason that, unlike Chanukah and Purim, it was lost to Jewish practice for more than a thousand years. Nevertheless, we do have its megillah, which has been translated into Hebrew and English. Perhaps, if we start reading chapters 13-15 of 2 Maccabees, even just to ourselves, on the 13 of Adar, we can begin to resurrect a holiday that was celebrated and instituted by Judah Maccabee and his followers over two millennia ago, and which they envisioned would continue throughout Jewish History. With the return of Jews to Israel and Jewish sovereignty to Jerusalem, I believe it is about time. . . . |
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Isaac Gantwerk Mayer
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Megillot, Modern Miscellany, Purim Sheni Readings
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19th century C.E., United States, emancipation, 57th century A.M., Abraham Lincoln, American Jewry of the United States, American Civil War, General Order No. 11, Ulysses Grant, Cesar Kaskel
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A megillah for a Purim Sheni commemorating a day of salvation the Jewry of the United States during the Civil War. . . . |
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Aharon N. Varady (transcription), Moses Gaster (translation) and Unknown Author(s)
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Megillot, Shavuot Readings
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שדים sheydim, Hebrew translation, 2nd century B.C.E., 36th century A.M., tithing, apotropaic rituals of protection, Tobit, mysterious fish, Ashmodai, derivative work
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The story of Toviah (Tobit) in Hebrew translation, in an abridged version arranged for public reading on the second day of Shavuot. . . . |
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