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Definition of I Maccabees
1. Noun. An Apocryphal book describing the life of Judas Maccabaeus.
Lexicographical Neighbors of I Maccabees
Literary usage of I Maccabees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1908)
"И Maccabees: This book is parallel with I Maccabees except that it begins a little
earlier; viz., with the last year of Seleucus IV, Philopator, ..."
2. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... Additions to Daniel (Song of the Three Holy Children, History of Susannah,
and Bel and the Dragon), Prayer of Manasses, i Maccabees, 2 Maccabees. ..."
3. A Commentary: Critical, Practical and Explanatory, on the Old and New by Robert Jamieson, Andrew Robert Fausset, David Brown (1884)
"The more immediate reference seems to be, the forces of Matta- thias, and his
hve sons were originally few (i Maccabees, 2.). many Shall Cleave to them—as ..."
4. The Methodist Review (1854)
"The Apocryphal book, entitled " The Wisdom of Sirach," is considered a very
excellent performance; and I. Maccabees is an authentic history of Jewish ..."
5. Princeton Theological Review by Princeton Theological Seminary (1915)
"Again, there is certain evidence in I Maccabees, also, that Daniel existed before
the time of the Maccabees. For from the speech given in chapter II, 51-60, ..."
6. The Life and Exploits of Alexander the Great by Ernest Alfred Wallis Budge (1896)
"I. MACCABEES I. I—6. And it came to pass that after Alexander, the son of Philip
the Macedonian, who was the first to reign in Greece, having come forth ..."
7. Posts & Telegraphs, Past and Present: With an Account of the Telephone and by William Tegg (1878)
"5. This is the copy of the letters. I Maccabees xii. 7. There were letters sent
in time past. I Maccabees xii.. And received the letters. ..."
8. Hellenism by Norman De Mattos Bentwich (1920)
"I Maccabees 1. 14, and II Maccabees 49. * Ben Sira 24. 3-6. ' Daniel 3. 5, 1o.
... "I Maccabees 1.13. " II Maccabees 1o.19. " Comp. II Maccabees 6. ..."
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