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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural The name given in later times to the Asmonæans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 b. c., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
- noun plural The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.
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- noun Plural form of
Maccabee . - proper noun biblical A book of the
Old Testament Apocrypha. - proper noun history A Jewish
liberation movement who fought for, and established, independence in theLand of Israel during the second and first centuries BC.
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Examples
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The political resurrection of the Jews under the Maccabees is the starting-point of transition to the literal resurrection about to follow the destruction of Antichrist by Christ's coming in glory.
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Second Maccabees is accepted as inspired scripture by the Catholics, Orthodox and Oriental Christians, and accepted as semi-inspired by Anglicans*, of which I am one.
Matthew Yglesias » Avigdor Lieberman Boosted By Pro-Pork Backlash 2009
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As a work of history, 1 Maccabees is probably one of the best in the Bible, but it is also one of the driest and densest books in the Bible.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Josephus's work keeps going in this vein after 1 Maccabees is finished.
Archive 2008-02-01 2008
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Josephus's work keeps going in this vein after 1 Maccabees is finished.
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As a work of history, 1 Maccabees is probably one of the best in the Bible, but it is also one of the driest and densest books in the Bible.
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I’m not aware that anyone - Jew, Protestant, or whatever - denies that Second Maccabees is reasonably valid as history.
Matthew Yglesias » Avigdor Lieberman Boosted By Pro-Pork Backlash 2009
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They were led by the Hasmonean family, who with their band of guerrilla warriors known as the Maccabees, drove the hated Seleucids and their Greek ways from Jerusalem and reinstated Temple worship—an event still celebrated by the feast of Hanukkah.
Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011
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So the truth about the Maccabees is a slippery one.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah Shawna Dolansky 2011
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So the truth about the Maccabees was a bit different than what I had thought.
Shawna Dolansky: The Truth(s) About Hanukkah Shawna Dolansky 2011
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