Individual Beliefs and Life 
Reference will be made principally to
2 Maccabees, the martyrdom of Saints Carpus, Papylus, and Agathonice in The Acts of the Christian Martyrs, Brecht's ....
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II Maccabees 12-3: An Exegesis
.... believed to have been completed by 124 BCE Defined as a work of "mixtum compositum", II
Maccabees is comprised of a "sort of introduction",
2 letters, and ....
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The Maccabean Revoltto
.... seemingly great odds facing them. The principal sources for the revolt are 1
Maccabees and
2 Maccabees. The first of these covers ....
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Major beliefs of Judaism
.... Great Rome. In
2 Maccabees, the Jerusalem Jews have some degree of autonomy but are being besieged by (polytheistic) Syria. The text ....
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Biblical Truth: A Discussion
.... fewer books than the Catholic, and the books that are in the Catholic Bible only comprise the Apocrypha: Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch, 1 and
2 Maccabees, Tobit, and ....
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Jesus and Social and Cultural Outcasts
.... 13:
2, 46), a leper was to be declared unclean by the priest and obliged .... the Pharisees in the third century BC, with the revolt of the
Maccabees, during which ....
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Treasures Old and New: Essays on the Theology of the Pentateuch
.... "The
Maccabees made a new interpretation of Sabbath law. They would not attack on the Sabbath, but they would fight to save their lives (1 Macc.
2:40-41). ... ....
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ANCIENT GREEK AND HEBREW THOUGHT
.... and the achievements of man- art, virtue, social order" (Wilson 2002
2). As one .... The group of what we today call "
Maccabees" defeated a far more powerful army ....
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Judaism's Communal Orientation
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2. Old Testament History: The Old Testament is another name for the .... meaning "Rejoicing of the Torah." Hanukkah commemorates the
Maccabees military victory over ....
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