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I Maccabees

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Noun1.I MaccabeesI Maccabees - an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
1 Maccabees
Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
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I Maccabees says that Mattathias and his friends "forcibly circumcised all the uncircumcised boys that they found within the borders of Israel" (I Macc 2:45).
Ethnicity, ethnocentrism, and the Matthean ethnos by Duling, Dennis C. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
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