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Maccabees
Maccabees
n. pl.
The
name
given
later
times
to
the
Asmonaeans
, a
family
of
Jewish
patriots
,
who
headed
a
religious
revolt
in
the
reign
of
Antiochus
IV.,
168
-
161
B. C.,
which
led
to a
period
of
freedom
for
Israel
.
Maccabees
n. pl.
The
name
of
two
ancient
historical
books
,
which
give
accounts
of
Jewish
affairs
in or
about
the
time
of
the
Maccabean
princes
,
and
which
are
received
as
canonical
books
in
the
Roman
Catholic
Church
,
but
are
included
in
the
Apocrypha
by
Protestants
.
Also
applied
to
three
books
,
two
of
which
are
found
in
some
MSS
. of
the
Septuagint
.
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