1 Maccabees


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Noun 1. [画像:1 Maccabees - an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus]1 Maccabees - an Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus
Apocrypha - 14 books of the Old Testament included in the Vulgate (except for II Esdras) but omitted in Jewish and Protestant versions of the Bible; eastern Christian churches (except the Coptic Church) accept all these books as canonical; the Russian Orthodox Church accepts these texts as divinely inspired but does not grant them the same status
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It covers much of the same history that 1 Maccabees does, but is more overtly religious in its rhetoric and its aims.
Reading the Maccabean literature by the light of the stake: Anabaptist appropriations in the reformation Period
The account of the rededication of the temple in 1 Maccabees 4 describes a problem presented by the altar, which the Syrians had defiled with a "desolating sacrilege" (1 Macc 1:54): "They deliberated what to do about the altar of burnt offering, which had been profaned....
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Luther, in addition to translating the Bible, also dropped some of the Old Testament books from his canon of scripture: Tobit, Judges, Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Baruch (including the Letter of Jeremiah), 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, and parts of Esther and Daniel.
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This led to the destruction of pagan shrines and, at times, to the death or exile of native populations (e.g., 1 Maccabees 13:43-53).
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