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In the event the check out of *Abudarham, that the haftarah was instituted during the persecutions of *Antiochus Epiphanes as a substitute for that proscribed reading of your Pentateuch, is often recognized, it would equally have been a kind of protest against the royal aspirations on the *Hasmoneans, who weren't of royal stock. A curious reference