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Desisting from Battle on Shavuot
Related Primary Sources
Primary Source
A Pause in Fighting to Observe Shavuot
2 Maccabees 12:29, 31–32
In this passage, Judah Maccabee and his forces go to Jerusalem to observe Shavuot before heading to battle in Idumea.
Primary Source
Hyrcanus’ Request to Refrain from Battle on Shavuot
Josephus
Jewish Antiquities 13.251–252
In this passage, Antiochus VII grants the request of high priest and ethnarch John Hyrcanus for a pause in fighting to observe a Jewish festival.