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If the check out of *Abudarham, that the haftarah was instituted in the persecutions of *Antiochus Epiphanes as a substitute for the proscribed reading through with the Pentateuch, could be acknowledged, it would equally are a form of protest in opposition to the royal aspirations of the *Hasmoneans, who were not of royal stock. A curious reference