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  2. Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    The Maccabees (/ ˈ m æ k ə b iː z /), also spelled Machabees (Hebrew: מַכַּבִּים, Makkabbīm or מַקַבִּים, Maqabbīm; Latin: Machabaei or Maccabaei; Ancient Greek: Μακκαβαῖοι, Makkabaioi), were a group of Jewish rebel warriors who took control of Judea, which at the time was part of the Seleucid Empire.

  3. Books of the Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    The Books of the Maccabees refers to a series of deuterocanonical books which are contained in various canons of the Bible: 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]

  4. 3 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    3 Maccabees, [a] also called the Third Book of Maccabees, is a book written in Koine Greek, likely in the 1st century BC in either the late Ptolemaic period of Egypt or in early Roman Egypt. Despite the title, the book has nothing to do with the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire described in 1 Maccabees and 2 Maccabees .

  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. It is a homily or philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion.

  6. 1 Maccabees - Wikipedia

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    I Maccabees: A New Translation, with Introduction and Commentary. The Anchor Bible Series. Vol. 41. Garden City, NY: Doubleday. ISBN 0-385-08533-8. Grabbe, Lester L. (2020). A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period: The Maccabean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (174–4 BCE). Library of Second Temple Studies ...

  7. Castellio Bible - Wikipedia

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    The Castellio Bible, also known as the Idiot Bible, in full The Bible newly translated, with the continuation of history from the time of Ezra to the Maccabees, and from the Maccabees to Christ (in French: La Bible nouvellement translatée, avec la suite de l'histoire depuis le tems d'Esdras jusqu'aux Maccabées : e depuis les Maccabées jusqu'à Christ), is a French translation of the Bible ...

  8. Mattathias - Wikipedia

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    The account of 1 Maccabees provides the lineage of Mattathias, stating that he was a son of John (Johanan) and grandson of Simeon, a priest from the order of Joarib. [3] Josephus adds the name of Asamonaius to this lineage in both his accounts, and though later rabbinic sources mention Hasmonai as a specific person, [ 6 ] "Asmonaius" or ...

  9. Battle of Beth Zur - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Beth Zur is recorded in the books of 1 Maccabees (1 Maccabees 4:26–35), 2 Maccabees (2 Maccabees 11:1–15), and Josephus's Antiquities of the Jews Book 12, Chapter 7. The main point of divergence is timing: according to 1 Maccabees, Lysias initiated an expedition, was defeated at Beth Zur, Jerusalem was taken, the Second Temple ...