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The Maccabees, also spelled Machabees (מכבים or מקבים, Maqabim; Machabi or Machado; Μακκαβαῖοι Makkabaioi), were the leaders of a Jewish rebel army that took control of Judea, which at the time had been a province of the Seleucid Empire. They founded the Hasmonean dynasty, which ruled from 164 BCE to 63 BCE. They reasserted th...
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• (n. pl.) 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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priestly family of Jews who organized a successful rebellion against the Seleucid ruler Antiochus IV and reconsecrated the defiled Temple of ... [9 related articles]
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1. The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, 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. ... 2. 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 recei...
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Mac'ca·bees noun plural 1. 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.
Schaff-Herzog. 2. The name of two ancient hi...
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A priestly Jewish family which ruled Palestine in the second and first centuries B.C.E. and wrested Judea from the rule of the Seleucids and their Greek practices. The Jewish holiday Hanukkah commemorates the Maccabees' recapture of Jerusalem and reconsecration of the Temple in December 164 B.C.E.
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The maccabees are two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes. They are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants.
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The Maccabees was a name given to the Asmonaegans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV from 168 to 161 BC, which led to a period of freedom for Israel. During the persecutions of Antiochus Epiphanes Mattathias slew a Jew who came to the altar to renounce his faith, and then fled to the mountains w...
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