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When the look at of *Abudarham, which the haftarah was instituted in the persecutions of *Antiochus Epiphanes as an alternative to the proscribed reading through of the Pentateuch, can be approved, it would equally have already been a kind of protest towards the royal aspirations of the *Hasmoneans, who were not of royal inventory. A curious refere