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Maccabees
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Mac·ca·bees 1  (mk-bz)
A family of Jewish patriots of the second and first centuries b.c., active in the liberation of Judea from Syrian rule.
Mac·ca·bees 2  (mk-bz)
pl.n. Abbr. M or Mc or Mac. or Macc.
See Table at Bible.
Macca·bean adj.
Maccabees [ˈmækəˌbiːz]
n
1. (Biographies / (168-142 bc)) X) a Jewish family of patriots who freed Judaea from Seleucid oppression (168-142 bc)
2. (Christian Religious Writings / Bible) any of four books of Jewish history, including the last two of the Apocrypha
Maccabees [ˈmækəˌbiːz]
n
(Christian Religious Writings / Bible) any of four books of Jewish history, including the last two of the Apocrypha
[from the Maccabees, a Jewish family of patriots who freed Judaea from Seleucid oppression (168-142 bc)]
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The 21 papers consider royal patronage, foreign policy, Ptolemaic policy in Nubia, Aristobulus and Pseudo-Aristeas as examples of Alexandrian Jewish approaches, the problem of sibling marriage, the woman's voice of Ihweret as focalizer in the First Tale of Setne Khaemwas, and other topics.
Ptolemy II Philadelphus and his world by Reference & Research Book News
42) The double names, Hebrew and Greek, of the rulers of the Maccabean dynasty, from the generation of John Hyrcanus (134-104 BCE) down, as well as the nickname adopted by Judah Aristobulus I (104-103 BCE) - philhellen, "lover of Greeks"-are further evidence of the forces pulling in the direction of accommodation with the outside world.
Ancient Jewish sectarianism by Baumgarten, Albert L. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
It continued in the talmudic period with the curse, said to go back to the time of the civil war between Hyrcanus II and Aristobulus II in 65 B.
Hebraism and Hellenism reconsidered by Feldman, Louis H. / Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought
 
 
 
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