Books of the Maccabees (Four books

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• Maccabees — n.pl. (in full Books of the Maccabees) four books of Jewish history and theology, of which the first and second are in the Apocrypha. Derivatives: Maccabean adj. Etymology: the name of a Jewish family that led a revolt c.170 BC under Judas… …   Useful english dictionary

• Maccabees, books of — Four books recording the struggle of loyalist Jews against the forces of Hellenist absorption in the 2nd cent. BCE. Of these 1 and 2 Macc. (there is considerable overlap in telling the history) exist only in the Greek of the LXX, but were… …   Dictionary of the Bible

• Maccabees, The Books of the — ▪ biblical literature Introduction Maccabees also spelled  Machabees        four books, none of which is in the Hebrew Bible but all of which appear in some manuscripts of the Septuagint. The first two books only are part of canonical scripture… …   Universalium

• Maccabees — Infobox Military Conflict conflict=Revolt of the Maccabees partof= caption=The Hasmonean Kingdom date=167 BCE 160 BCE place=The Land of Israel casus=Antiochus decrees forbidding Jewish religious practices territory=Jews regained control over the… …   Wikipedia

• Maccabees — /mak euh beez /, n. 1. (used with a pl. v.) the members of the Hasmonean family of Jewish leaders and rulers comprising the sons of Mattathias and their descendants and reigning in Judea from 167? to 37 B.C., esp. Judas Maccabaeus and his… …   Universalium

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