Megillat Antiochus The Scroll of Antiochus

Megillat Antiochus - “The Scroll of Antiochus” is an apocryphal work recounting the story of Chanukah and military victories of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greeks in the 2nd century BCE. Composed in Aramaic sometime between the 1st and 5th centuries CE, it was translated into Hebrew early on and into Arabic by R' Saadiah Gaon. In some medieval Italian synagogues, the scroll was read publicly on Chanukah, just as Esther is read on Purim. It still forms part of the liturgy in some Yemenite Jewish communities.