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The Scroll of Antiochus?

JL;DR SUMMARY Five hundred years ago, a Spanish scribe Moshe ben Hayyim included the non-canonical "Scroll of Antiochus" in his Bible manuscript, Codex Parma 1832. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski. At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself. This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude. Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from. But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me. And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.

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Jewish LiturgyJewish TextsHanukkahCultural InfluenceScroll Of AntiochusItalian JewryCodex Parma 1832ApocryphaMoshe Ben HayyimHasmonean Revolt

Places mentioned

Jerusalem, Israel
"Whoever composed the Scroll of Antiochus was ignorant of Israels geographyin it, the Greek army flees a landlocked Jerusalem by boat."
Cairo, Egypt
"It appears in over thirty-six medieval handwritten copies and forty fragments from the Cairo Genizah."
India
"and Marathi, the language of the Bene Israel community in India."
Pisa, Italy
"In 1495, Menahem ben Meshullam Terracina acquired the manuscript, probably from Moshe, while in Pisa."
Apulia, Italy
"Rabbi Isaiah of Trani, who lived in thirteenth-century southern Italy:"
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