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  2. 1 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    The Roman Catholic Lectionary makes use of texts from 1 Maccabees 1 to 6, along with texts from 2 Maccabees 6 and 7, in the weekday readings for the 33rd week in Ordinary Time, in year 1 of the two-year cycle of readings, always in November, and as one of the options available for readings for the dedication of an altar and as one of the ...

  3. Books of the Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    1 Maccabees, originally written in Hebrew and only surviving in a Greek translation, it contains an account of the history of the Maccabees from 175 BC until 134 BC. [1] 2 Maccabees, Jason of Cyrene's Greek abridgment of an earlier history which was written in Hebrew, recounts the history of the Maccabees from 176 BC until 161 BC. [1]

  4. Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    The name Maccabee [4] is often used as a synonym for the entire Hasmonean dynasty, but the Maccabees proper comprised Judas Maccabeus and his four brothers. The name Maccabee was a personal epithet of Judah, [5] and the later generations were not his direct descendants.

  5. 4 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    4 Maccabees, [note 1] also called the Fourth Book of Maccabees and possibly originally known as On the Sovereignty of Reason, [note 2] is a book written in Koine Greek, likely in the 1st or early 2nd century.

  6. Maccabean Revolt - Wikipedia

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    In 1 Maccabees, the only way for the Jews to honorably make a deal with the Seleucids involved first defeating them militarily and attaining functional independence. In 2 Maccabees, intended for an audience of Egyptian Jews who still lived under Greek rule, peaceful coexistence was possible, but misunderstandings or troublemakers forced the ...

  7. Mattathias - Wikipedia

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    The account of 1 Maccabees states that he moved away from Jerusalem and settled in Modi'in, [3] and while the account of Josephus in Antiquities [4] matches this, the account in Wars simply states that Mattathias (or his father) was a "priest of a village called Modi'in", [5] implying that it was his place of origin. [2]

  8. Maccabee campaigns of 163 BC - Wikipedia

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    According to 2 Maccabees, the refugees arrived just in time to celebrate the Feast of Weeks. [4] According to the book of 2 Maccabees, the Maccabees passed through land of the Tobiad Jews in the southern reaches of Ammon, who had a temple at Iraq al-Amir near Jazer that the Maccabees had visited earlier. [5]

  9. 2 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    2 Maccabees, [note 1] also known as the Second Book of Maccabees, Second Maccabees, and abbreviated as 2 Macc., is a deuterocanonical book which recounts the persecution of Jews under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt against him.