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Another source is the Megillat Antiochus.

This work ( also known as " Megillat HaHasmonaim ", " Megillat Hanukkah " or " Megillat Yevanit ") is in both Aramaic and Hebrew ; the Hebrew version is a literal translation from the Aramaic original.

Recent scholarship dates it to somewhere between the 2nd and 5th Centuries, probably in the 2nd century, with the Hebrew dating to the 7th century.

It was published for the first time in Mantua in 1557.

Saadia Gaon, who translated it into Arabic in the 9th century, ascribed it to the Maccabees themselves, disputed by some, since it gives dates as so many years before the destruction of the second temple in 70 CE.

The Hebrew text with an English translation can be found in the Siddur of Philip Birnbaum.