1 Maccabees gives first of all a brief view of the reign of Alexander the Great and the partition of his kingdom among his successors. Having thus explained the origin of the Seleucid Dynasty, the author proceeds to give a history of the Jews from the accession of Antiochus IV, king of ...
and also to events in which the Maccabees took no part. But this book tells of sufferings and triumphs on the part of loyal Jews comparable to those of the Maccabean period. Perhaps the term
BOOKS OF MACCABEES, the name given to several Apocryphal books of the Old Testament. The Vulgate contains two books of Maccabees which were declared canonical by the council of Trent (1546) and found a place among the Apocrypha of the English Bible. Three other books of this name are extant...
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V Maccabees. I. There are four books which pass under this name—I, II, III, and IV Maccabees. The first of these is the only one of the four which can be regarded as a reliable historical source. I Maccabees: The First Book of the Maccabees covers the period of forty years from ...
Try Britannica Premium for free and discover more. Subscribe The work’s main religious theme is that the martyr’s sufferings vicariously expiated the sins of the entire Jewish people. The Maccabees books were preserved only by the Christian church. St. Augustine wrote in The City of God th...
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Cat LinksBlog/Commentary The Real Hanukkah Story Here is a fairly good video Docu-Drama about the real story of Hanukkah, based on the Books of Maccabees 1 & 2. …Continue readingThe Real Hanukkah Story
The First and Second Books of the Maccabees Mr Bartlett's volume, like the others in the series, contains the text in the New English Bible. After a general introduction to the book as a whole, the t... JR Bartlett - Cambridge University Press, 被引量: 26发表: 1973年 Mothers and mar...
Maccabees (ˈmækəˌbiːz) n 1. (Biography) a Jewish family of patriots who freed Judaea from Seleucid oppression (168–142 bc) 2. (Bible) any of four books of Jewish history, including the last two of the Apocrypha Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th ...