Feasts, Jewish, of Dedication

a feast in commemoration of the purification of the Temple and the rebuilding of the altar by Judas Maccabæus in 164 B.C., after profanation of them by the Syrians: of the Pa over , a festival in April on the anniversary of the exodus from Egypt, and which lasted eight days, the first and the last days of solemn religious a embly: of Pentecost , a feast celebrated on the fiftieth day after the second of the Pa over, in commemoration of the giving of the law on Mount Sinai; both this feast and the Pa over were celebrated in connection with harvest, what was presented in one in the form of a sheaf being in the other presented as a loaf of bread: of Purim , a feast in commemoration of the preservation of the Jews from the wholesale threatened ma acre of the race in Persia at the instigation of Haman: of Tabernacles , a festival of eight days in memory of the wandering tent life of the people in the wilderne , observed by the people dwelling in bowers made of branches erected on the streets or the roofs of the house; it was the Feast of Ingathering as well.