מגילת אנטיוכס Megillat Antiokhus, the Scroll of Antiokhus and Additional Writing Concerning the Festival of Ḥanukkah

This new edition of the 2nd century CE מגילת אנטיוכס, the Scroll of Antiokhus, presents Menaḥem Zvi Kaddari’s critical edition of the Aramaic text, side-by-side with Dr. John C. Reeve’s scholarly translation in English. These are accompanied by a popular Hebrew translation by Rabbi Behr Frank and a Yiddish translation of the same by Rabbi Jospeh Adler. This is the first time that all of the original Aramaic has been set side-by-side with completely vocalized Hebrew text, Yiddish, and English. The illustrated book also contains prayers, blessings, songs for Ḥanukkah with English translations, relevant source texts from apocryphal and rabbinic Jewish wrtings, as well as a work of pseudepigrapha dating from the actual period of the Maccabean struggle.

All proceeds from the sale of this edition benefit the open-source, digital humanities project that spawned this work: the Open Siddur Project, opensiddur.org – sharing Jewish liturgy and related work for the crafting and print of new siddurim and related books.