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Categories: Deuterocanonical books, Maccabees, Hasmonean dynasty, Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference, Books of the Maccabees
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I Maccabees  1 Maccabees  1 Macc.  First Book of Maccabees  First Book of the Maccabees
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An Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus, tells how the Greek ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes attempted to suppress the practice of basic Jewish law, resulting in a Jewish revolt against Seleucid rule Open English WordNet
The First Book of Maccabees, also known as First Maccabees, is a book written in Hebrew by an anonymous Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom by the Hasmonean dynasty, around the late 2nd century BC. Wikipedia
A book of the Catholic and Eastern Orthodox canon of the Old Testament, considered apocryphal by Protestants. Wiktionary
First book of Maccabees. Wiktionary (translation)
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