II Maccabees 12-3: An Exegesis 
.... presence in his or her life. In
Maccabees the
Jews are drowned at the wicked hands of the people of Joppa. Yet their deaths serve as a ....
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Individual Beliefs and Life
.... killed, obviously suffer. But as 2
Maccabees makes plain, so do the
Jews who agree to abandon Jewish law. There are no guarantees ....
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The Maccabean Revoltto
.... Feuerlicht, Roberta Strauss. The Fate of the
Jews. New York: Times Books, 1983. Pearlman, Moshe. The
Maccabees. New York: Macmillan, 1973. Rappaport, Uriel. ....
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Treasures Old and New: Essays on the Theology of the Pentateuch 
.... It was here that the
Jews went from a passive to an active role in defending themselves, being willing to break the law a few times to .... "The
Maccabees made a ....
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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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Judaism's Communal Orientation
.... the holiday of Simchat Torah, meaning "Rejoicing of the Torah." Hanukkah commemorates the
Maccabees military victory .... In Israel,
Jews plant trees on Tu B'Shvat. ....
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ANCIENT GREEK AND HEBREW THOUGHT
.... He ordered the forcible Hellenization of all
Jews. .... The group of what we today call "
Maccabees" defeated a far more powerful army, and retook Jerusalem around ....
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Jewish Movement of Hasidism
.... force, but the novels also contributed to this decline so that many
Jews no longer .... The Talmud and the books of the
Maccabees refer to the second-century BCE ....
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Hasidism Hasidism is a Jewish movement dati
.... force, but the novels also contributed to this decline so that many
Jews no longer .... The Talmud and the books of the
Maccabees refer to the second-century BCE ....
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Jesus and Social and Cultural Outcasts
.... Luke 2:47) was plainly not so at age 30: The Nazarene
Jews proceed to .... of the Pharisees in the third century BC, with the revolt of the
Maccabees, during which ....
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Biblical Truth: A Discussion
.... only comprise the Apocrypha: Sirach, Wisdom, Baruch, 1 and 2
Maccabees, Tobit, and .... The
Jews established a tradition of close study of scripture texts that was ....
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