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Maccabees, Jewish family

(Encyclopedia)Maccabees or Machabees both: măkˈəbēz [key], Jewish family of the 2d and 1st cent. b.c. that brought about a restoration of Jewish political and religious life. They are also called Hasmoneans or ...

Maccabees, books of the Bible

(Encyclopedia)Maccabees, two books included in the Septuagint and placed as the last two books in the Old Testament of the Vulgate; they are not included in the Hebrew Bible and are placed in the Apocrypha in Prote...

Maccabees, Feast of the

(Encyclopedia)Maccabees, Feast of the: see Hanukkah. ...

Hyrcanus

(Encyclopedia)Hyrcanus: see Maccabees, Jewish family. ...

Judas Maccabeus

(Encyclopedia)Judas Maccabeus: see Maccabees, Jewish family. ...

John Hyrcanus

(Encyclopedia)John Hyrcanus: see Maccabees, Jewish family. ...

Salome Alexandra

(Encyclopedia)Salome Alexandra: see Maccabees, Jewish family. ...

Jewish literature

(Encyclopedia)Jewish literature: see Hebrew literature. ...

liturgy, Jewish

(Encyclopedia)liturgy, Jewish, rites, observances, and procedures of Judaism. Communal prayer, with a quorum of ten men (or in some modern communities, ten people), replaced the priests of the Temple cult. There ar...

Caesarea Palestinae

(Encyclopedia)Caesarea Palestinae pălĭstīˈnē, sĕzə–, sēzə– [key], city, NW ancient Palestine, c.20 mi (32 km) S of Mt. Carmel. It was taken (104 b.c.) by Alexander Jannaeus, leader of the Maccabees, an...