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This new edition of the 2nd century CE Megillat Antiokhus, the Scroll of Antiokhus, presents Menaḥem Zvi Kaddari's critical edition of the Aramaic text, side-by-side with Dr. John C. Reeve's scholarly translation in English. These are accompanied by a medieval Hebrew and pre-WWII Yiddish translation. This is the first time that all of the original Aramaic has been set side-by-side with completely vocalized Hebrew text, Yiddish, and English. The illustrated book also contains prayers, blessings, songs for Ḥanukah with English translations, relevant source texts from apocryphal and rabbinic Jewish wrtings, as well as a work of pseudepigrapha dating from the actual period of the Maccabean struggle. All proceeds from the sale of this edition benefit the open-source, digital humanities project that spawned this work: the Open Siddur Project, opensiddur.org - sharing Jewish liturgy and related work for the crafting and print of new siddurim and related books.