maccabees in A Sentence

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    Who Were the Maccabees?

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    First and Second Maccabees.

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    The writer of 2 Maccabees may very well be right;

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    Books contain true accounts of things that actually occurred(1 Maccabees for example).

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    The Maccabees' descendants- the Hasmonean dynasty- routinely violated their own Jewish law and tradition.

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    Maccabees 6:16 So king Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth year.

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    Some of these books contain true accounts of things that actually occurred 1 Maccabees, for.

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    Some of these books contain true accounts of things that actually occurred(1 Maccabees, for example).

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    Some of these books contain true accounts of things that genuinely occurred(1 Maccabees for example).

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    Maccabees 13:52 He ordained also that that day should be kept every year with gladness.

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    And others went there during the troubles of the Maccabees against the Seleucid kings.

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    See the article“ Who Were the Maccabees?” in The Watchtower of November 15, 1998.

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    From Genesis to the Second Book of Maccabees, all 46 books of the Old Testament are available below.

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    Even more significantly, the following centuries witnessed the devastation that would be caused when Jews tried again to accomplish what the Maccabees had done.

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    Over two millennia, Hanukkah has evolved to narrate the story of the Maccabees in ways that meet the distinctive needs of successive generations of Jews.

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    First Maccabees also relates that the Seleucids forbade the practice of brit milah(Jewish circumcision), and punished those who performed it- as well as the infants who underwent it- with death.

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    According to the apocryphal book of 2 Maccabees, it caused considerable controversy when, as a Hellenizing effort, the apostate high priest Jason proposed to build a gymnasium in Jerusalem.​ - 2 Macc.

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    The earliest version of this story appears in the Talmud, in a document completed in the sixth century A.D. From that period on, rather than directly commemorating the Maccabees' victory, Hanukkah celebrated God's miracle.

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    The Jews and their priests have resolved that Simon should be their leader and high priest forever, until a trustworthy prophet should arise.”​ - 1 Maccabees 14: 38- 41 a historical book found in the Apocrypha.

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