Two reading coincidences:

1) At the resthome, I tell the one resident who's a retired school nurse that in my ongoing "read the entire Bible" project I'm currently reading First Maccabees and so I feel out of synch with the (Jewish) liturgical year, and she's like, "Oh yes, them, they got too friendly with the Romans."

Then, that night I read some more First Maccabees, and it's exactly the part where they start getting friendly with the Romans.

2) Like a night or two later, I'm sitting in my apartment listening to a local classical radio station and reading more First Maccabees, and the next thing I know they start playing a few selections from Handel's Judas Maccabeus.