Books of the Maccabees

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Books of the Maccabees

The Books of the Maccabees are books concerned with the Maccabees

Maccabees

The Maccabees were a Jewish national liberation movement that fought for and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty, who was succeeded by his infant son Antiochus V Eupator....
, the leaders of the Jewish rebellion against the Seleucid dynasty, or related subjects.

The term mostly refers to two deuterocanonical books contained in some canons of the Bible:

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The Books of the Maccabees are books concerned with the Maccabees

Maccabees

1 Maccabees
1 Maccabees

1 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical books book written by a Jewish author after the restoration of an independent Jewish kingdom, probably about 100 BC....
, originally written in Hebrew and surviving in a Greek translation, relates the history of the Maccabees from until 134 BC.
2 Maccabees
2 Maccabees

2 Maccabees is a deuterocanonical books book of the Bible which focuses on the Jews' revolt against Antiochus IV Epiphanes and concludes with the defeat of the Syrian general Nicanor in 161 BC by Judas Maccabeus, the hero of the work....
, a Greek abridgement of an earlier history in Hebrew, relating the history of the Maccabees down to 161 BC, focusing on Judas Maccabaeus.

The term also commonly refers to two further works:

3 Maccabees
3 Maccabees

One of the Pseudepigrapha, the Bible book 3 Maccabees is found in most Eastern Orthodox Church Bibles as a part of the deuterocanonical books, but Protestantisms and Catholics do not include it in their list of apocrypha books, except the Moravian Brethren who included it in the Apocrypha of the Bible of Kralice....
, a Greek book relating to a 3rd century BC persecution of the Jews of Egypt.
4 Maccabees
4 Maccabees

The book of 4 Maccabees is a homily or philosophy discourse praising the supremacy of pious reason over passion. It is not in the Bible for most churches, but is an appendix to the Greek Bible, and in the canon of the Georgian Bible....
, a philosophic discourse praising the supremacy of reason over passion, using the Maccabeen martyrs
Maccabees

The Maccabees were a Jewish national liberation movement that fought for and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty, who was succeeded by his infant son Antiochus V Eupator....
as examples.

The term may also refer to:

5 Maccabees
5 Maccabees

The Fifth book of the Maccabees is an ancient Jewish work relating the history in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC....
, an Arab language history from 186 BC to 6 BC. The same title is also used for a Syriac version of 6th book of Josephus
Josephus

Josephus , also known as Yosef Ben Matityahu and, after he became a Roman citizenship, as Titus Flavius Josephus, was a first-century Jewish historian and apologist of priestly and royal ancestry who survived and recorded the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70....
' Jewish War
The Wars of the Jews

The Wars of the Jews is a book written by the 1st century Jewish historian Josephus.It is a description of Jewish history from the capture of Jerusalem by the Seleucid Empire ruler Antiochus IV Epiphanes in 164 BC to the fall and destruction of Jerusalem in the First Jewish-Roman War in AD 70....
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6 Maccabees, a Syriac poem which possibly shared a lost source with 4 Maccabees.
7 Maccabees, a Syriac work focusing on the speeches of the Maccabean Martyrs and her mother
Maccabees

The Maccabees were a Jewish national liberation movement that fought for and won independence from Antiochus IV Epiphanes of the Hellenistic Seleucid dynasty, who was succeeded by his infant son Antiochus V Eupator....
.
8 Maccabees, a brief account of the revolt drawing on Seleucid sources, preserved in the Chronicle of John Malalas
John Malalas

John Malalas or Ioannes Malalas was a , Byzantine Empire chronicler. He was born at Antioch....
(§§ 206-207).

The three books of Meqabyan

Meqabyan

I, II, and III Meqabyan are three books in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Old Testament Biblical canon.Although these books are totally different in content from the books of Maccabees in Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Bibles, they are sometimes referred to as Ethiopic Maccabees or Pseudo-Maccabees....
from Ethiopia

Ethiopia

Ethiopia , officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, is a landlocked country situated in the Horn of Africa. Ethiopia is bordered by Eritrea to the north, Sudan to the west, Kenya to the south, Somalia to the east and Djibouti to the northeast....
are similar in name but quite different in content.