Bible (DRV) Apocrypha/Deuterocanon: 2 Maccabees
Douay-Rheims Version
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The Book of 2 Machabees (more commonly rendered 2 Maccabees) is an abridgement of another work, now lost, which describes the events surrounding the defeat of Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the rededication of the Jewish temple in the 2nd Century BCE. It's canonicity (status as Holy Writ) was established later in the Christian era, and hence forms part of the deuterocanon (2nd canon). It is excluded from the Jewish bibles as well as modern Protestant bibles. The Church of England, in 1571, affirmed that 2 Machabees, as well as several other books excluded from the Protestant canon, "the Church doth read for example of life and instruction of manners; but yet doth it not apply them to establish any doctrine" (The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Article VI).
The defeat of Antiochus IV Epiphanes is celebrated annually during the Festival of Hannukah, which is referred to prophetically in the Jewish Scriptures (Daniel 8, 11) and explicitly in the Christian Scriptures (John 10:22). (Summary by Adamski) (2 hr 10 min)
Chapters
Introductory Note and Chapter 01 | 10:20 | Read by Adam |
Chapter 02 | 7:29 | Read by Adam |
Chapter 03 | 9:05 | Read by Adam |
Chapter 04 | 11:11 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 05 | 6:25 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 06 | 7:41 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 07 | 9:28 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 08 | 9:30 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 09 | 7:09 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 10 | 8:19 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 11 | 7:11 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 12 | 10:40 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 13 | 6:18 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Chapter 14 | 11:36 | Read by Adam |
Chapter 15 | 8:05 | Read by Lori Arsenault |
Reviews
brilliant
Zo
very well read. reader made listening easy.
A LibriVox Listener
beautiful, surprisingly not a continuation of First Macabees.