Definition of Maccabean. Meaning of Maccabean. Synonyms of Maccabean

- Jews, Book 1.1 §2 The author of the First Book of Maccabees regards the Maccabean revolt as a rising of pious Jews against the Seleucid king (who had tried...
- The Maccabean Revolt (Hebrew: מרד החשמונאים) was a Jewish rebellion led by the Maccabees against the Seleucid Empire and against ****enistic influence...
- the Antiochian ****cution of Jews (c. 167/166 BCE) that preceded the Maccabean Revolt. Although unnamed in 2 Maccabees, the mother is known variously...
- (יהודה המכבי Yehudah HaMakabi) had defeated the Seleucid army during the Maccabean Revolt of 167 to 141 BCE. According to 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, and the...
- recounts the ****cution of Jews under King Antiochus IV Epiphanes and the Maccabean Revolt against him. It concludes with the defeat of the Seleucid Empire...
- period; ****enistic Judaism blended both Gr**** and Jewish traditions. The Maccabean Revolt of 167–142 BCE was fight a first for Judean autonomy against a...
- Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He led the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire (167–160 BCE). The Jewish holiday of...
- subsequent rededication of the Second Temple at the beginning of the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire in the 2nd century BCE. Hanukkah is...
- discourse that praises the supremacy of reason over p****ion, using the Maccabean martyrs as examples. 5 Maccabees, an Arabic text which offers an account...
- Edom (/ˈiːdəm/; Edomite: 𐤀𐤃𐤌 ʾDM; Hebrew: אֱדוֹם ʾĔḏōm, lit.: "red"; Akkadian: 𒌑𒁺𒈪 Údumi, 𒌑𒁺𒈬 Údumu; Ancient Egyptian: jdwmꜥ) was an ancient kingdom...